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Mercedes Rosende was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a lawyer and a journalist when not writing fiction. She has won many prizes for her novels and short stories. In 2005 she won the Premio Municipal de Narrativa fr Demasiados Blues, in 2008 the National Literature Prize for La Muerte Tendr tus Ojos and in 2019 the LiBeraturpreis in Germany for Crocodile Tears. Tim Gutteridge is a Scottish literary translator based in Edinburgh. He works from Spanish and Catalan into English. His translation of Potos (Ander Izagirre) won a PEN Translates Award and was published by Zed Books as The Mountain that Eats Men.
Praise for Crocodile Tears: It reads like a marvellous mash-up of Anita Brookner and Quentin Tarantino. -- The Times Fast, slick and acerbically funny: buckle up and enjoy the ride. --Guardian . Rosende smoothly combines dark humor and farce with moving depictions of the grimmer aspects of life. Elmore Leonard fans will look forward to the sequel. -- Publishers Weekly- STARRED REVIEW I should guess this is the first Uruguyan crime novel to have appeared in English. It occupies Elmore Leonard/Patrick Hoffman territory, with a cast of amoral characters observed intimately and ironically. --BookBrunch Dark thrillers often benefit from a drop of humor or a dab of irony, but Crocodile Tears is immersed in black sardonic wit for 220 pages of wicked pleasure. --CrimeTime A bold, vibrant crime caper set in Uruguay. Hugely entertaining, this is a full-on, fresh yet heady read. -- LoveReading
