- 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.
- He was among the fifty Latin American leaders selected by Time magazine and CNN in 1999.
- Fuguet headed the program in contemporary audiovisual culture at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado's School of Journalism in Santiago.
- Some of Fuguet's work, including Mala onda and Las películas de mi vida, has been translated into English and published in the United States.
- 2007 saw the release of Road Story, a graphic novel illustrated by Gonzalo Martínez based on one of the stories in Cortos. Under the Alfaguara imprint, the book is claimed by Fuguet and by his sometime-collaborator Francisco Ortega to be the first Chilean graphic novel issued by a major publisher.
- In 2003, he was featured on the cover of the international edition of Newsweek magazine to represent a new generation of writers.
- He is a Chilean author, journalist, film critic and film director who rose to critical prominence in the 1990s as part of the movement known as the New Chilean Narrative.
- In 1999 Time called Fuguet one of the 50 most important Latin Americans for the next millennium.
- He writes for the newspaper El Mercurio and is at work on two new projects: the film Perdidos and the book Missing.
- He is a graduate of the University of Chile's School of Journalism.
- His book "Mala onda", which narrates a week in the life of a Santiago teenager in 1980, has received wide acclaim, and his novel "Tinta roja" has been made into a film.
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