Born in Mexico, educated in Texas, and having lived and worked in a dozen cities and countries, Rodolfo Peña attributes his writing style to his haphazard education and the malformed understanding of grammar and spelling he picked up in southern Texas where ALL words have at least two syllables (such as Peee-unh, for "pen").
Rodolfo lives in Biarritz, which is in southern France, with his wife Claudette. He has no dogs, or cats, and his children are grown adults, thankfully, who live elsewhere. He spends most of his day writing, with occasional breaks to translate texts into Spanish or English (his "day job"); having no real hobbies, his recreation consists mostly of loosing golf balls in the near-by Biarritz Golf Club or growing misshapen tBorn in Mexico, educated in Texas, and having lived and worked in a dozen cities and countries, Rodolfo Peña attributes his writing style to his haphazard education and the malformed understanding of grammar and spelling he picked up in southern Texas where ALL words have at least two syllables (such as Peee-unh, for "pen").
Rodolfo lives in Biarritz, which is in southern France, with his wife Claudette. He has no dogs, or cats, and his children are grown adults, thankfully, who live elsewhere. He spends most of his day writing, with occasional breaks to translate texts into Spanish or English (his "day job"); having no real hobbies, his recreation consists mostly of loosing golf balls in the near-by Biarritz Golf Club or growing misshapen tomatoes and potatoes in a rented garden plot. (This year we grew a tomato with an uncanny resemblance to Charles Laughton when he played Quasimodo in the 30's version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
He spends the winter months in Dolores Hidalgo, a charming village in the Central Highlands of Mexico, and the rest of the year in his home in France. He avoids Paris in the summer like the plague, the Black variety, and prefers to go there in the dead of winter before going off to Mexico. He also avoids the Biarritz beaches in summer where the smell of coconut oil and burnt flesh can be overpowering (nevermind the sight of naked septuagenarians).
Author of two crime novels of the Guillermo Lombardo series, he plans a third set in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico but has promised his wife he will first finish The Ruinous Life of Doctor Rodriguez, a novel based on the life of the author's favorite uncle, the man most responsible for the author's warped sense of humor....more