Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya

Writer and Psychiatrist Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya was born in Buenos Aires in 1952. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He is the author of the novels El criadero, Los Infernautas, and The Envoy (with Leonardo Killian). In 2020, he was selected as a permanent juror for the noir novel competition of the Black Mountain Bossost Festival in Bossost, Spain. He is currently working on a series of novels about a war between police officers. El criadero was originally published in Argentina, and was subsequently published in Cuba and Spain, where it won the 2002 José Boris Spivacow Award.  Appearing here as The Sanctuary, it marks Abrevaya’s first translation into English.