Gabriel Trujillo Munoz

Ángel Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz is a Mexican writer, born in Mexicali, Baja California on July 21, 1958. He is a poet, narrator, and essayist.

Trajectory

FOECA-Baja California Fellow, 1994, 1998, and 2005-2006; Rockefeller Fellow, 1992;

Full-time professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California, researcher and one of the editors of the University Magazine at UABC. He has published over 130 books as an author or compiler.

Founder of the Mexicali City Council publishing houses and the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California. Founder of Esquina Baja y Trazadura. He is a founding member of the Mexican Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Creator Emeritus of Baja California 2012. He is a member and academic of the Mexican Academy of Language, corresponding to Baja California, since June 23, 2011. Distinguished Citizen in Arts 2013 by the Government of the State of Baja California.

He has received the Baja California State Prize for Literature nine times, as well as the 1998 Abigael Bohórquez National Essay Prize, the 1999 Colima Narrative Fine Arts Prize for Published Work for Espantapájaros; National Poetry Prize Sonora 2004, Bartolomé Delgado National Poetry Award 2004 for Colindancies; Pellicer-Frost Binational Poetry Award 1996, for Borderlines, Border Excellence Binational Award 1998, the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano International Narrative Award 2005 for Highclowd, memories of sand and water, of rock and wind ; Vandalay Regional Novel Award 2005, Historical Narrative Award from the Pedro F. Pérez y Ramírez Foundation 2006, Arts Award 2009 from the Technological Institute of Mexicali,

Editor and director of Semillero; coordinator of the Regional Center for Information and Promotion of Literature in Mexicali; Researcher of Baja California literature and journalism; of border cinema and the history of science fiction in Mexico.

He has collaborated in dozens of publications such as Arquetipos, Azar, Blanco móvil and others.

Part of his poetic and essayistic work has been translated and published in Japan, India, Italy, Germany, the United States, Argentina Chile, Spain, France, Canada and Switzerland.

Part of his work has appeared in works such as General Anthology of Mexican Poetry, Océano, 2014.

Disputes

He has been criticized because year after year he always wins the same awards, thus taking away opportunities for young writers. In 2002, the writer Heriberto Yépez pointed out that the rules of the calls were not applied equally, disqualifying texts for not being unpublished when Gabriel Trujillo's texts were not.

His essay "Tijuana: Puerto Libre, Casa de Todos" published in the book "La cultura bajacaliforniana y otros ensayos afines" it caused annoyance among a group of teachers from the Autonomous University of Baja California who considered that it denigrated the city of Tijuana.

Published work

Novel

• Labyrinth (ICBC, 1995)
• Mezquite Road (Planet, 1995)
• GRACOS (Editions B, 1999) (Included in the collective volume: UPC 1998 Award: short science fiction novel
• Conjured (Sansores & Aljure, 1999)
• Scarecrow (Lectorum, 1999)
• Tijuana city blues (Sansores & Fernández1999)
• The Feast of the Ravens: Miguel Angel Morgado's border saga, five short novels) (Norma, 2002) (Includes: Mezquite Road, Tijuana City Blues, Loverboy, It's on stage. and Salt lagoon)
• Thundra Trilogy (2000) (Includes: Orescu: the voice; Orescu: the blood; Orescu: the light)
• Highclowd: memories of sand and water, of rock and wind (UAEM, 2006)
• Mexicali City Blues (Belacqva, 2006)
• The memory of the dead (The other shore, 2008)
• Transfigurations a venerable mystery (Jus2008)
• Lost trains in fog" (Jus, 2010)
• We will die as suns ( Grijalbo-Random House Mondadori, 2011)
• Circle of Fire (Lectorum, 2014)
• Music for deceased (Lectorum, 2014)
• Neighbourhood with abyss (Lectorum, 2015)
• Shiashian and the macabre circus of Volcan City: a supernatural western (Puertabierta editors 2018)

poetry

• Poems (1981)
• Ritual (1982)
• Perception (UABC, 1983)
• Moridero (UABC, 1987)
• Behind mirage (1989)
• Mandragora (1989)
• Atisbos (UNAM, 1991)
• In full light (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 1992)
• Gift of languages (1995)
• Alphans (1996)
• Major surgery (1997)
• Constellations (1997)
• ISC Hills. (2006)
• Civilization ICBC (2009)
• Civil Poems, Amargord, Spain 2013
• Periphery poems, UAM 2013

Essay

• Three essays on the Baja Californian trial (1988)
• Praises and vitupees (1990)
• Science fiction: literature and knowledge (1991)
• Signs and reviews (1992)
• Of different rash (1993)
• Signs of sand: literature and border trials (UABC, 1994)
• Introductory footprints (1995)
• cardinal points (1995)
• Kitakaze (North Wind): The Japanese in Baja California (Larva, 1997)
• Silver Images: Cinema in Baja California (Tijuana Aid, 1997)
• Literature bascaliforniana XX Century (1997)
• The confines: chronicle of Mexican Fiction Science (VID, 1999)
• Baja California: Myths and Film Rites (1999)
• The Song of Progress: Life and Miracles of Journalism in Baja California (2000)
• Prosecution witnesses (CNCA/CECUT, 2000)
• Future biographies: Mexican science fiction and its authors (UABC, 2000)
• French Language: from Frankenstein to Harry Potter (Lumen, 2001)
• Crossroads: the Bascalifornian culture, its authors and works (2002)
• Mexicali: a century of artistic and cultural life (2003)
• From the shamans to the DJ's: short chronicle of musical arts in Baja California (Plaza and Valdés, 2007)
• Visions and mirages: the wisdom of sands (Regional Fund for Culture and Arts, 2007)
• The Other History of Baja California (Baja California Editorial Board, 2009)
• Utopias and Quimeras: Travel guide to the territories of Fiction Science (JUS, 2016)
• Nothing is what it looks like: Articles essays and aphorisms (1981-2017). UABC/UNL(2018)

Story

• Myriad (Country Edition, 1991)
• Trebejos (ICBC, 2001)
• Mercaderes (Norma, 2002)
• Summer in the windshield (ICBC, 2009)
• Height weight(ICBC, 2013)
• distant worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, South Carolina: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform 2014
• Lucky Strike, publishing house, 2016

Reporter and compiler

• Myths and Legends of Mexicali (2004)
• New Myths and Legends of Mexicali (2014)

Anthology

• Biographies to the future, UABC 2000
• Big bonanza. Theatre Chronicle in Baja California, 1985-2006, Porrúa/UABC, 2006
• The other lower, Editorial Entrelineas, 2009
• Escaramuzas, Editorial Fósforos, 2010
• The insatiable look, UABC, 2017
• Current Mexican fans (Albur Books 2019)

Chronicle

• Mexicali: childhood chronicles (UABC, 1990)