Reinaldo Ladagga was born in Rosario in 1963, where he began his
studies. He was then granted a doctorate at New York University. He is author
of Estudio al estilo veneciano (A Study in the Venetian Style), an opera
libretto, Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos (Destitute Literature and Base Instincts), a book of literary
criticism, as well as of a number of essays. He currently lives and teaches in
the United States. La Euforia de Baltasar Brum is his
first novel.