Guillermo Martínez

Guillermo Martínez (born 29 July 1962) is an Argentine novelist and short story writer.

Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires.

After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. His most successful novel has been Crímenes Imperceptibles (Imperceptible Crimes), known in English as The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. The book has appeared as a film in 2008, directed by Alex de la Iglesia, and starring John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling and Julie Cox.

Books Vast Hell (Infierno grande, 1989) — short stories Regarding Roderer (Acerca de Roderer, 1993) — novel The Woman of the Master (La mujer del maestro, 1998) — novel Borges and Mathematics (Borges y las matemáticas, 2003) — essays The Oxford Murders (Crímenes imperceptibles, 2003) — novel The Immortality Formula (La fórmula de la inmortalidad, 2005) — essays The Book of Murder (La Muerte Lenta de Luciana B, 2007) — novel Gödel (para todos), 2009 — essay Lalu la luco, 2016 — novel The Oxford Brotherhood (Little, Brown, 2021) — novel