He has published poetry, essays, short stories and one novel and has translated the work of many great Italian poets of the 20th century including Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale.

Today Morábito has undoubtedly become one of the most influential Spanish speaking writers.

He has been awarded numerous prizes as the Carlos Pellicer Prize or the National Prize for Poetry Aguascalientes and the White Ravens Award, for his novels When Panthers Were not Black (1997) and for his compilation and rewriting of Mexican Folk Tales (2015).

In 1998 Morábito was a guest resident at the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. His writing has been translated into several languages. Morábito lives in Mexico City, where he works as an author, translator and university professor.

Novels

More novels

Emilio, los chistes y la muerte (Anagrama, 2009)

Stories

Madres y Perros (Sexto Piso, 2016)
La lenta furia (Vuelta,1989; Tusquets, 2002; Eterna Cadencia, 2009)
La vida ordenada (Tusquets, 2000, Eterna Cadencia, 2012)
Grieta de fatiga (Tusquets, 2006; Eterna Cadencia, 2010), premio de narrativa “Antonin Artaud” 2006

Prose

Caja de herramientas (FCE, 1989; Pre-Textos, 2009)
También Berlín se olvida (Tusquets 2004, Sexto Piso 2014, Gog y magog, 2017)
El idioma materno, Sexto Piso, 2014, Hueders 2014 y Gog y Magog 2014)

Children’s Literature

More Children’s Literature

Cuentos populares mexicanos (Recopilados y reescritos por Fabio Morábito), México, FCE, 2014
España, Siruela, 2015.
“White Ravens”, 2015

Essay

Los pastores sin ovejas (El Equilibrista, 1995)

Poetry

Lotes baldíos (FCE, 1985), premio Carlos Pellicer
De lunes todo el año (Joaquín Mortiz, 1992), premio Aguascalientes
Alguien de lava (Era, 2002)
La ola que regresa (FCE, 2006)
Delante de un prado una vaca (Era 2011, Visor 2014)