Sergio Olguín (Buenos Aires, 1967) studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked as a journalist since 1984. He founded the magazine V de Vian, and was co-founder and the first director of film magazine El Amante. He has contributed to the newspapers Página/12, La Nación and El País (Montevideo). He is editor-in-chief of Lamujerdemivida magazine and head of culture for the newspaper Crítica de la Argentina. He has edited various anthologies and is the author of a collection of short stories, three novels, and two books for young people. His novel Dark Monotonous Blood won the V Tusquets Prize, according to the jury, for its magnificent resolution of a plot of obsession and double moral, passion and social conflict, in which the protagonist, a man willing to go beyond all limits for a shameful relationship, finds himself ensnared.