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In 2008, Andahazi published his first non-fiction book, Pecar como Dios manda, a sexual history of Argentines.

He took part in numerous anthologies, among others: Las palabras pueden: Los escritores y la infancia (2007, dedicated to UNICEF and World Food Program, with authors like José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Ernesto Sábato, Juan Gelman, Mario Benedetti and Mario Vargas Llosa; Líneas aéreas (1999, published by Lengua de trapo, Spain) with writers such as Jorge Volpi, Santiago Gamboa and Edmundo Paz Soldán; A Whistler in the Nightworld, collection of short fiction from Latin America (2002, published by Plume, USA) with Laura Restrepo and Ángeles Mastretta among others; La Selección Argentina (2000, published by Tusquets); El libro de los nuevos pecados capitales (2001, Norma Publishing Group). He also took part in the book Homage to Diego Maradona (2001, SAF) together with Roberto Fontanarrosa and Pacho O'Donnell.

In 2006, Federico Andahazi was awarded the Planeta Prize for his novel El conquistador ("The Conqueror"). There he narrates the story of Quetza, the brilliant son of Tenochtitlan, who discovers the European continent.

The novel La ciudad de los herejes was published in 2005.

Also during the summer of 2005, Andahazi and his readers collectively wrote a newspaper series called Mapas del fin del mundo (Maps from the End of the World) published by the newspaper Clarín. The author wrote the beginning of a text, asking the readers to continue the story, create characters, propose plots, solve riddles, to be sent by e-mail. Therefore, in an unprecedented work, reading and answering thousands of e-mails per week, Andahazi built the story with the various inputs and points of view. Every Saturday a new chapter was added to the novel, increasing the participation and the expectation of readers turned co-authors.

Errante en la sombra was published in 2004; Andahazi wrote more than forty tangos for this story, in which singer Carlos Gardel takes part.

In 2000 he published El príncipe and in 2002 El secreto de los flamencos.

His second novel, Las piadosas (The Merciful Women), a Gothic fantasy set in Geneva, exploring the relationship between Lord Byron, his secretary Polidori and Mary Shelley, was published in 1998.

In 1998 the publishing house Temas published El árbol de las tentaciones, a small volume containing short stories that obtained awards. The three short stories begin in the same way and are located in similar settings of nineteenth-century Argentina.

The Anatomist was published by Editorial Planeta in 1997, translated into over thirty languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

In 1996, while Andahazi was the finalist of the Planeta Awards, his novel The Anatomist won the First Prize of the Fundación Fortabat. However, the mentor and financial supporter of the contest, María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, announced her "disagreement" with the decision of the jury, through a request published in most newspapers of Buenos Aires, in which she stated that the novel "does not contribute to [the] exalt[ation of] the most high values of the human spirit".

Federico Andahazi (born June 6, 1963) is an Argentine writer and psychologist.