Guillermo
Fadanelli was born in Mexico City at El Sagrado Corazón Hospital located in Calzada de Tlalpan, D. F. A hospital that no longer exists: it is
a hotel now. At
nine years old he fronts his first fight
with fists and the child who was nicknamed El Caperuza defeats him. At the age of eleven, his father enrolls him
at a military school, where he becomes
more cynical rather than corrected. At thirteen he wins his first fight after
a long history of losses. At the age of eighteen he has got his first car: Rambler 67.
His first trip outside the country is to
San Francisco when
he is twenty-one. There he meets his
uncle Johnny, a former Vietnam
fighter who initiates
him into the art of drinking tons
of beer. In the early eighties he starts
studying Engineering and never gets the title because he avoids entering classes. At this
time is when literature begins to
be interesting to him. At Engineering
School he meets Yolanda Martinez, and together with a group of friends he founds Revista MOHO.
His first book is entitled The Day I See Her, I'll Kill Her
(El día que la vea la voy a matar), published by Editorial Grijalbo.
In the early nineties he looks after some Christmas trees at the 87th and Second Avenue
corner in New York, he earns 1500 dollars. Some years later, he works as a
salesman in a bakery in Madrid without payment, but in exchange for his work he receives a roof
and food. He lives in Berlin for a year, and is surprised because beer is served
warm there. He is also interested
in the Hohenzollern’s biography. In Bogotá and Havana
he makes good friends. In Lima he stands
the press up (a newspaper announces his
disappearance and possible abduction),
and in Graz he goes to have a drink
with the director of the Criminology Museum.
He has published several novels and clings to lead Editorial
Moho. In the present he has lost most of his friends because of the passing of the years. Anyway he seems to be very happy.
