- Alberto Fuguet was born on March 25, 1964 in Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile. He is a writer and producer, known for Se arrienda (2005), Dis-moi oui (2019) and Locaciones: Buscando a Rusty James (2013).
- Attended Saint Gabriel's (private) high school in Santiago, Chile.
- Lived in Los Ángeles, USA, for 10 years.
- Started as film critic and then novelist: author of many novels, some translated into English such as Bad Vibes, The Movies of my Life and Shorts.
- In 1996 he co-edited (with Sergio Gómez) the anthology McOndo, whose title combined McDonald's with Macondo, the fictional town created by Gabriel García Márquez. McOndo represented popular culture while largely rejecting the use of magical realism in contemporary Latin American fiction.
- Fuguet's work is characterized by a United States/Chilean hybridity, with constant cross-references to the popular cultures of the two nations.
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