Eduardo Lalo

Eduardo Lalo (born 1960) is a Puerto Rican novelist, best known for his novel Simone, who won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize.

His books are hybrids of essay and fiction, as demonstrated in his first book, En el Burger King de la calle San Francisco (In the San Francisco Street Burger King), published in 1986.

I started to draw late, at age 21, when I had just finished studying in New York and visited museums and galleries.

"[3] His international recognition came in 2013, when he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Simone, an English-language translation of which was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press.

[4] He is a professor at the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico, and publishes columns of literary criticism is publications such as 80 Grados.