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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    Colombian writer

    Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. He has written many novels, short stories, literary essays, and numerous articles of political commentary. His novel The Sound of Things Falling, published in Spanish in 2011, won the Alfaguara Novel Prize and the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, among other prizes. His novels have been published in 28 languages. In 2012, after living in Europe for sixteen years, in Paris, the Belgian Ardennes, and Barcelona, Vásquez moved with his family back to Bogotá. Wikipedia

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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973, [1] to Alfredo Vásquez and Fanny Velandia, both lawyers. He began to write at an early age, publishing his first stories in a school magazine at the age of eight. During his teenage years, he began reading the Latin American writers of the boom generation: Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, among others.
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez è nato nel 1973 a Bogotà dove vive e lavora [1].. Dopo una laurea in diritto all'Università del Rosario a Bogotà, ha continuato i suoi studi all'Università Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne per poi trasferirsi un anno in Belgio e a Barcellona fino al 2012 [2]. Considerato tra le voci più originali della letteratura latinoamericana moderna [3], è autore di otto romanzi ...
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) is the author of the two books of short stories Los amantes de Todos los Santos and Canciones para el incendio (Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize), and six novels: The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (The Sound of Things Falling) (Alfaguara 2011, Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze Prize 2013, IMPAC ...
  6. May 7, 2024Juan Gabriel Vásquez 's previous books include the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and bestseller The Sound of Things Falling and the Booker International finalist The Shape of the Ruins, as well as the award-winning Reputations, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collection Lovers on All Saints' Day.His books have been published in forty languages ...
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    Juan Vasquez Gabriel's novel "The Shape of the Ruins" is a sweeping tale of twisted obsessions, assassinations, and conspiracy theories. Only a few people notice when a nondescript man is taken in by the police when he attempted to make off with the bullet-riddled suit of assassinated Colombian politician.
  8. Juan Gabriel Vásquez 's previous books include the Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the International Booker finalist The Shape of the Ruins, the award-winning novels The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collections Songs for the Flames and Lovers on All Saints' Day.
  9. goodreads.com

    Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of stories and two books of literary essays, as well as hundreds of pages of political commentary.
  10. ondertexts.com

    Juan Gabriel Vásquez, a Colombian writer born in Bogotá in 1973, is renowned for his novels, short stories, essays, and political commentary. His acclaimed novel "El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer (The Sound of Things Falling)" won the Alfaguara Novel Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. His works, published in 28 languages ...
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.. Vásquez's novels have been published in ...

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