Abel Perdido

Abel Perdido is a writer who came to Germany with a scholarship from National fund for culture and the arts and CONACYT, earned through his work publishing an independent literature magazine nationwide, promoting the local poetry scene, and developing pedagogical literary enterprises. Perdido studied philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and focuses on indigenous groups of Mayan descent. His latest work, Cartas que no han de llegar al coronel, deals with the Zapatista uprising, and his poetry collective project Blinder Passagier is active in Berlin, organising literary events for Spanish-speaking communities. Perdido is based in Reinickendorf, Berlin.