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An astonishing artificer of the imagination, Hugo Hiriart has been a novelist, playwright, essayist, theatre director, screenplay writer, and visual artist.  Born in Mexico City in 1942, he received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Galaor in 1972.  This first step into narrative was followed up by Cuadernos de Gofa (Gofa’s Notebooks) and La destrucción de todas las cosas (The Destruction of Everything).  Hiriart is the author of a dozen works for the stage, among the most notable are Ginecomaquia; Hécuba, la perra (Hecuba, the Bitch); Intimidad (Intimacy) and Ámbar (Amber), some of which have been filmed.  His essays are considered exemplary in recent Mexican literature, especially:  Disertación sobre las telarañas (A Dissertation on Spider-Webs), Sobre la naturaleza de los sueños (On the Nature of Dreams) and Los dientes eran el piano (The Teeth Were the Piano); the latter published by Tusquets Editores.