Guillermo Martinez is an internationally recognised Argentine writer who also holds a PhD in mathematics. His short story "Vast Hell" was published in The New Yorker (2009), and his novel The Oxford Murders (2003) has been translated into thirty-five languages. He is also the author of four more novels, including Regarding Roderer (1992) and The Book of Murder (2007), as well as several books of essays, including Goedel (para todos) (with Gustavo Pinero). Martinez has participated in the Iowa International Writing Program and was a fellow at the MacDowell and Civitella Ranieri foundations.