[1][2] Carlos Sebastián Busqued was born in the city of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, province of Chaco, Argentina, in 1970.
Busqued taught at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional de Buenos Aires, in addition to traveling twice a month to the city of Córdoba to give classes there.
It was a semi-finalist for the Herralde Prize in 2008, translated into English, Italian, French and German; and later made into a film by Israel Adrián Caetano in 2017, under the title El otro hermano.
At the beginning of 2019, Busqued faced a court case for sexual abuse after being denounced by a woman at the Domestic Violence Office of the city of Buenos Aires.
Busqued died at his home in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires, on March 29, 2021, at the age of fifty, due to a heart attack.