Roberto Ransom

Both his novel Tale of Two Lions (Norton 2007), and the collection of short stories Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists (Swan Isle Press/University of Chicago 2018), have been translated and published in English. Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists has enjoyed critical acclaim for its translation by Daniel Shapiro, who was awarded grants by PEN America, and the National Endowment for the Arts for its completion.

After nearly a decade of working as a journalist and writer, Ransom received a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship and studied for a M.A. and a PhD degree in theology, ethics, and culture at the University of Virginia in the late 1990s. Afterwards, he returned to Mexico to write and teach at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua.

Roberto Ransom was born in Mexico City to a second-generation Irish American family that emigrated to Mexico. For his undergraduate education, Ransom applied to the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he studied dramatic literature and theater at the School of Philosophy and Letters. His time there introduced him to the artistic world of Mexico during the La Decada Perdida of the 1980s.

Roberto Ransom Carty (born 1960) is a Mexican writer. Regarded as one of Mexico's most original authors, his published work includes novels, collections of short stories, poetry, an essay on Graham Greene and work on Mexico, as well as several award-winning children's books. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.