[8] A year before graduating, his first collection of short stories, Las máscaras de la nada, was published in Cochabamba.

[7][12] His PhD thesis was on the life and works of Alcides Arguedas; stemming from this research, a biography was published in 2003.

[8] In 2011, he chaired the jury committee for the first Premio de las Américas for the best work published in Spanish in 2010.

[20] His first science fiction novel, Iris, published in 2014, was inspired by an article in Rolling Stone magazine about psychopathic soldiers in Afghanistan.

[citation needed] He has translated some English works to Spanish, including Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare and The Seller of Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez, a US author from Ecuador.

[citation needed] His own works have been translated into several languages and have appeared in anthologies in Europe and America.

[22] Two films by Alfonso Mayo, Wednesday Afternoon (2004) and Keeper of the Past (2005), are based on stories by Soldán.