Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli

Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli was born in La Spezia, Italy, where she lived until the age of thirteen. She later moved to Mexico City, where she learned Spanish and continues to reside.

She earned a BA in Architecture in 1992 and began her professional career as an architect, founding Euritmia Arquitectos Asociados, a prominent blueprint design and construction firm within the real estate landscape of central Mexico City. In 2002, she left architecture to devote herself fully to writing.

Since then, she has published the short story collection ¡Lotería! (Planeta, 2003); the novels Los Inválidos (Les Invalides, Planeta 2005; Penguin Random House 2008, 2012); Heridas de agua (Water Wounds, Penguin Random House, 2012); Donde termina el mar (Where the Ocean Ends, Planeta, 2018); and Fuego que no muere (Undying Fire, Planeta, 2022). She is also the author of the essay collection Apuntes de viaje (Travel Notes, Editorial Porrúa 2014) and the interview volume De lecturas y vidas: 80 entrevistas sobre el poder de los libros (On Books and Lives: 80 Interviews on the Power of Reading, Penguin Random house 2017).

Marcucetti Pascoli has contributed to numerous print publications, including the newspapers Excélsior and Milenio, as well as magazines such as Playboy, Marie Claire, Vogue, Soho, Esquire, Condé Nast, Chilango, Central, and Open. She has also written for digital media and worked in television.

As a cultural promoter, she created and hosted the television program Cambio Literal for ADN40, a series dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of books on public figures. She currently oversees the literary segment of the national Mexican morning news program Es de mañana on ADN Noticias (TV Azteca), where she recommends books weekly, and writes a book review column titled De lecturas y vidas for the Me