Jorge Volpi is a Mexican author (1968), who recently won the Debate-Casa de America non-fiction prize for El insomnio de Bolívar, a critique of the reduction of Latin America to an exotic image and an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the region. His novel In Search of Klingsor is set in 1940. Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is invited to join a prestigious institute at Princeton. But a series of personal indiscretions forces him to accept a more sinister assignment: he is sent by the U.S. government to uncover Klingsor, Hitler's top adviser on scientific work, including the race to create the first atomic bomb. This work won the 1999 Biblioteca Breve Prize previously awarded to authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa.