Patricio Pron, born in Rosario, Argentina, is a writer, critic, and translator. El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia came out with Anagrama in 2024, Die geheime Natur der irdischen Dinge, in Dagmar Ploetz’ superb translation into German, was published in March 2025 at dtv. Patricio has a PhD from the University of Göttingen where he worked as a researcher and lecturer in Romance literatures from 2002 to 2007.