Cristóbal Pérez Barra has an LL.B. (Hons) and an M.St. in Hispanic Literatures from UC Chile, and a D.Phil. in Literature in English from the University of Oxford. He has taught both law and literature and published fiction in Spanish, including the short-story collection El descorazonamiento (2012) and the novel Una sombra en la noche (2016). He has translated two of Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello Lessons - as Dos lecciones de Elizabeth Costello (2015) - and Julian Barnes's edition of Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain (2017) into Spanish.