Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature. He has written on topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. He now lives in Brazil and has two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. Down the Rabbit Hole was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award 2011, and his latest book, Quesadillas, was published in 2013.