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Juan Gabriel Vásquez


Spain (b.1973)

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogota in 1973. His books include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana. Vásquezs books have been published in seventeen languages world-wide, and he is the recipient of the Prix Roger Caillois in France and the Alfaguara Prize in Spain. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá .
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
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Collections
   The All Saints' Day Lovers (2015)
     aka Lovers on All Saints' Day
   Songs for the Flames (2020)
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My Friends (2024)
Hisham Matar
"My Friends is Matar's most political novel, but also an intimate meditation on friendship and love and everything in between. It is deeply affecting, generous and wise, and all these virtues come in writing of extraordinary elegance, with one of those voices that you want to listen to for the rest of your life."
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More Than I Love My Life (2021)
David Grossman
"Nobody can see the political in the personal like David Grossman. He is an interpreter of hearts and an investigator of social forces. Every book he writes is a revelation."
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Hades, Argentina (2021)
Daniel Loedel
"Loedel writes in the venerable Argentinian tradition of mixing the political and the supernatural, but his novel comes from a different language and a new sensibility. It took me to places I had never visited before."

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Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel winner (2014) : The Sound of Things Falling
International Booker Prize Best Book nominee (2019) : The Shape of the Ruins


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