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 Ministry of Culture

Carmen Inés Vásquez Camacho

Minister of Culture

David Melo
Vice Minister of Culture

Claudia Isabel Victoria Niño

General Secretary

Consuelo Gaitán Gaitán

Director of Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia
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Adriana González Hassig

Cultural Entrepreneurship Group Coordinator

Colombian Book Chamber

Enrique González Villa

Executive President

Sandra Pulido Urrea

Fairs Manager
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 Consuelo Gaitán
Director of Biblioteca Nacional
“Reading Colombia – A Selection of Contemporary Colombian
Narrative” is an opportunity for Colombian literature to finally and
irreversibly cross the boundaries of our own language. For the first time,
we have designed a program that provides systematic and structured
support to the translation of of Colombian writers, bearing in mind
market dynamics, transaction channels, commercial routs used by
publishing houses, and the most appropriate mechanisms to advertise
them internationally.
By creating this catalog, which includes 28 texts, we intend to
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our writers’ interests; the wide variety of publishing options and the
multiples themes addressed; the points of view, structures and records
that are available in Colombian literature. It is also an opportunity for the
rest of the world to become familiar with country by becoming familiar
with its writings, with the work of these writers – some of them well know
while others are but making their first debut in literature, - and of the
publishers’ patient and dedicated work as they strive to distribute all the
books that we are introducing to the rest of the world. We hope that this
initiative will ensure that Colombia is read in many languages.
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Enrique González Villa
Executive President Colombian Book Chamber
As representatives of the publishing sector, the Colombian Chamber of
Literature is proud to be a part of this project, the purpose of which is
to internationalize Colombian writers. It is essential for the nation’s entire
publishing chain that we should make contemporary literary production
visible in international markets.
This catalog sheds light on the diversity of our current literary production; it
includes both experienced writers as well as writers who are making their first
appearance. It also brings together publishing houses with more than thirty
years of experience and small independent publishers that are beginning
to make a name for themselves with high their quality publications. There 5
is a market for everyone. This is why we are increasingly convinced that
literature has no borders. Colombian authors deserve their literary worlds
to be known in English, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Arabic, or
Italian, among other languages.
This sample includes fiction in the form of novels and short story collections,
and non-fiction in the form of memoirs, essays and historical accounts.
We hope that, like us, you will acknowledge the enormous potential of our
literature.
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho Retrato de niños con bayonetas
Afuera crece un mundo
10 cuando escribo esto
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(A Portrait of Children with Bayonets)
(A World Grows Outside)
(I Wish You Would Hear the Song I Hear as I Jairo Buitrago
Adelaida Fernández Ochoa
Write This) Panamericana
Manuela Espinal Solano Seix Barral
Angosta
La sed

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Criacuervo
(Criacuervo)
Orlando Echeverri Benedetti 20
Crecimos en la Guerra
(We Grew Up Amid the War)
Pilar Lozano
29 (Thrist)
Enrique Patiño
Planeta
Angosta Panamericana

Otro posible es posible: caminando hacia las Toño Ciruelo

12
transiciones desde Abya Yala/Afro/Latino-América
(Another Possible is Possible: On a path towards
transition from Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America) 21
Un librero
(A Bookseller)
Álvaro Castillo Granada
30 (Toño Ciruelo)
Evelio Rosero
Tusquets
Arturo Escobar Penguin Random House
Desde Abajo
Soy asesino y padre de familia

Antología nocturna Después de la ira 31 (I am a Killer and a Family Man)

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Fabio Rubiano

Authors that are part of the catalogue Reading Colombia. A Selection of Contemporary Colombian authors:
13 (Anthology in the Night)
Julio Paredes
Babel Libros
(When the Wrath Was Over)
Cristian Romero
Alfaguara
Seix Barral

La melancolía de los feos

El llamado del silencio Aves de paso

32 (Hideous Melancholy)
Mario Mendoza 9
Adelaida Fernández Ochoa, Álvaro Castillo Granada, Arturo Escobar, Celso Román, Cristian Romero, Daniel Villabón, Eduardo 14 (Silence calls)
Helena Iriarte 23 (Passing Birds)
Eduardo Peláez Vallejo
Planeta

Peláez Vallejo, Enrique Patiño, Evelio Rosero, Fabio Rubiano, Helena Iriarte, Jairo Buitrago, Javier Ortiz Cassiani, Juan José Hoyos, Babel Libros Alfaguara El perfume del viento

Julio Paredes, Manuela Espinal Solano, María Cristina Restrepo, María Isabel Abad, María Ospina, Mario Mendoza, Mauricio Un diablo al que le llaman tren. El 33 (Perfume in the Wind)
Triunfo Arciniegas
Loqueleo
ferrocarril Cartagena-Calamar Hotel París

García Villegas, Olga Behar, Carolina Ardila, Pablo Navarrete, Orlando Echeverri Benedetti, Pablo Montoya, Pilar Lozano, Rafael 15 (A Devil They Call Train. The
Cartagena-Calamar Railroad) 24 (Hotel Paris)
María Isabel Abad Lo que la guerra se llevó
(Gone with the War)
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Javier Ortiz Cassiani Penguin Random House
Baena, Ricardo Silva Romero and Triunfo Arciniegas. Fondo de Cultura Económica Olga Behar, Carolina Ardila
y Pablo Navarrete
Ícono
El orden de la libertad Tríptico de la infamia
*In addition, within the catalogue is Puñalada trapera (A Stab in the Back) a selection of short stories by 22 authors. 16 (The Order of Freedom)
Mauricio García Villegas 25 (A Triptych of Infamy) Azares del cuerpo

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Pablo Montoya (Body Mishaps)
Fondo de Cultura Económica Penguin Random House María Ospina
Laguna Libros

Jorge Isaacs. Verás huir la calma

Memoria de derrotas
17 (Jorge Isaacs. You Will See Stillness Flee)
María Cristina Restrepo
Luna Libros
26 (Memory of Defeats)
Rafael Baena
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Puñalada trapera
(A Stab in the Back)
Varios autores
Alfaguara
Rey Naranjo

El espíritu del páramo Historia oficial del amor

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El oro y la sangre

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(The Spirit of the Moorland) (Love: An Official Story)
Celso Román (Of Gold and Blood)
Ricardo Silva Romero Juan José Hoyos
Monigote
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 Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto Criacuervo
(I Wish You Would Hear the Song I Hear as I Write This) (Criacuervo)
MANUELA ESPINAL SOLANO ORLANDO ECHEVERRI BENEDETTI

Summary Summary
Though a work of fiction, this book is primarily Klaus and Adler are two brothers with little in common
autobiographical. With a style that is surprisingly besides their childhood in Berlin, their deep familiarity
reserved and sophisticated for such a young author,
Data sheet Data sheet with water, and the fact that they are both in love with
this novel explores the uncertainties of real life: how Publisher: Angosta Publisher: Angosta
can we deny what is in our blood? When should we Genre: Novel Genre: Novel
the same woman: Cora. After many years, Klaus wants
reject a tradition that we love despite all of its faults? ISBN: 978-958-59652-2-5 ISBN: 978-958-59652-6-3 to come to terms with a troubled past and decides to
Publication date: 11/25/2016 Publication date: 04/01/2017
And most importantly, how can we explain all of this? N.º of pages: 71 N.º of pages: 211 invite Adler and Cora to visit him in Criacuervo, in the
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down a road of broken fates in a desperate attempt to
find the meaning behind a path we never chose.

Manuela Espinal Solano (Medellín, 1998) is a Orlando Echeverri (Cartagena de Indias, 1980) is a
Author’s Communications and Journalism student at the writer and journalist who studied Philosophy. In 2014, Author’s
Biography Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Her first novel, he was awarded the Idartes National Novel Award for Biography
Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando Manuela Orlando his book Sin freno por la senda equivocada (Going
escribo esto was published by Angosta Editores in 2016. Espinal Echeverri Down the Wrong Path Without Breaks). In 2018, he
She has worked with several media outlets, including Solano Benedetti was a finalist in the Ministry of Culture’s National Novel
newspapers such as El Espectador and magazines like Award for his second novel, Criacuervo, published by
Arcadia and Soho, among others. Angosta Editores.
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 Otro posible es posible: caminando hacia las transiciones desde Abya
Antología nocturna
Yala/Afro/Latino-América
(Anthology in the Night)
(Another Possible is Possible: On a path towards transition from
Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America) JULIO PAREDES
ARTURO ESCOBAR

Summary Summary
This collection of essays addresses the politics of The stories in this collection traverse the nation’s
possibility: how our ideas of what is real and what geography: they begin among the buzz of cicadas
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is possible limit not only how we practice politics Publisher: Desde Abajo Publisher: Babel Libros
in the oppressive tropical heat, then shift toward
individually and collectively, but also our sense of Genre: Narrative Genre: Short Story Bogotá’s cold savanna. Readers will be drawn in
ISBN: 978-958-8926-612 ISBN: 978-958-8841-014
hope. It is a contribution to the establishment of defiant Publication date : 01/01/2018 Publication date: 11/15/2013
by the protagonists and the enveloping narratives
12 communal and autonomous worlds that are emerging in N.º of pages: 222 N.º of pages: 208 that Colombian readers typically associate with the 13
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some regions of Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America. Copyright free languages: All Copyright free languages: All armed conflict.

Author’s Arturo Escobar (Manizales, 1952) is an anthropologist Julio Paredes (Bogotá, 1957) has a degree in Author’s
Biography and professor at the University of North Carolina, Philosophy and Literature. He has published novels Biography
Chapel Hill where he specializes in Political Ecology, Arturo and short story collections. Many of his works have
Julio been translated into German, English, and French. He
Anthropology of Development, Social Movements, Escobar
Science and Technology, and issues related to Colombia. Paredes has worked on books from all sides: as a professor,
editor, and translator.
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 Un diablo al que le llaman tren. El ferrocarril Cartagena-Calamar
El llamado del silencio
(A Devil They Call Train. The Cartagena-Calamar Railroad)
(Silence calls)
JAVIER ORTIZ CASSIANI
HELENA IRIARTE

Summary
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A silent, empty and profoundly lonely woman has
Un diablo al que llaman tren uses a series of
drained her recollections of any sense of soul—yet
documentary and graphic sources to tell the story
an urgent voice rings within her: it is the call to Data sheet Data sheet of the “panting beast”whose merry whistle sought
remember. The narrator knows the time has come to Publisher: Babel Libros Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Genre: Novel Genre: History to awaken Cartagena de Indias from its centuries of
tell her story. Her hesitation is the calm before the ISBN: 978-958-8841-274 ISBN: 978-958-8249-292
Publication date: 09/14/2013 Publication date: 04/30/2018
torpor.
storm of creation, the forecast of language that will N.º of pages: 136 N.º of pages: 201
14 come to heal the pain of death. Format: 13.5 x 17.5 cm Format: 14 x 21 cm
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Author’s Helena Iriarte (Bogotá, 1937) studied Philosophy and Javier Ortiz Cassiani (Valledupar, 1971) studied at the Author’s
Biography Literature at the Universidad de los Andes and specialized Universidad de los Andes and El Colegio de México. Biography
Javier
in Hispanic-American Literature at the Instituto Caro y Helena Ortiz He researches memory, representation, and popular
Cuervo in Bogotá. Iriarte Cassiani
culture, as well as the political and cultural history of
Afro-descendants.
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 El orden de la libertad Jorge Isaacs. Verás huir la calma
(The Order of Freedom) (Jorge Isaacs. You Will See Stillness Flee)
MAURICIO GARCÍA VILLEGAS MARÍA CRISTINA RESTREPO

Summary
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The relentless struggle between excessive state power
Besides narrating Jorge Issac’s enthralling life, this
and the dereliction of the state in Latin America has
biographical novel also depicts life in Colombia
failed to propose a reasonable middle path. This Data sheet Data sheet during the 19th Century. In an original narrative told
is why it has been so difficult to create the kind of Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica Publisher: Luna Libros
Genre: Essay Genre: Biography through the voice of Felisa González, Issac’s wife,
democratic, organized society that would help ISBN: 978-958-8249-155 ISBN: 978-958-58199-4-8
Publication date: 08/29/2014
we discover the different facets of Issac’s personality
citizens strike a balance with authority. Publication date: 30/08/2017
N.º of pages: 268 N.º of pages: 440 beyond his fame as the author of María (1867):
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Isaacs the miner, the landowner, the general, the
Italian, Portuguese, German, governor, the explorer and others.
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese.

Author’s Mauricio García Villegas (Manizales, 1959) studied Law María Cristina Restrepo (Medellín, 1949) studied Author’s
Biography at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín Philosophy and Literature, and Education; she also Biography
Mauricio María studied Modern Languages, and the History of Art
and obtained a PhD in Political Science at the Université
García Cristina and Civilization. Her publications include essays,
Catholique de Louvain. short stories, novels, and chronicles.
Villegas Restrepo
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 El espíritu del páramo Retrato de niños con bayonetas
(The Spirit of the Moorland) (A Portrait of Children with Bayonets)
CELSO ROMÁN JAIRO BUITRAGO

Summary Summary
El espíritu del páramo tells the story of Edward Today’s lesson begins with an old picture from the
Mackenzie, a scottish explorer who came to Colombia Thousand Days War. The teacher shows this picture
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in 1900 searching for the lost El Dorado treasure. Data sheet
Publisher: Panamericana
to her students and they begin to think about the
Publisher: Monigote
During his treacherous journey, Mackenzie found Genre: Young Adult Genre: Short Story characters they see. Why are these soldiers there?
ISBN: 978-958-5887-930 ISBN: 978-958-30-5512-6
himself in a sacred land watched over by ancient Publication date: 15/11/2018 Publication date: 03/30/2017
Will they ever be able to go home?.
18 Muisca guardians who taught him the laws of a N.º of pages: 140 N.º of Pages: 52
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natural order. Copyright free languages: All Copyright free languages: All

Author’s Celso Román (Bogotá, 1947) is one of the most renowned Jairo Buitrago (Bogotá, 1970) is a writer, illustrator, Author’s
Biography children’s and young adult authors in Colombia. He has and researcher for children’s literature. He has been Biography
been awarded the ENKA National Award, the ACLIJ Jairo included several times on the IBBY Honor Roll. His
Celso
Award, and the Norma-Fundalectura Latin American Buitrago work has received awards in Brazil, the United States,
Román Chile, and Mexico.
Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
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 Crecimos en la Guerra Un librero
(We Grew Up Amid the War) (A Bookseller)

PILAR LOZANO ÁLVARO CASTILLO GRANADA

Summary
Summary
This book reaffirms what the humanitarian
In these stories, the protagonist is a passionate
tragedy has meant for the children and the
bookseller whose tale is the product of his obsession:
communities that gave in and lost everything to Data sheet Data sheet
the unexpected paths he follows in the purchase, sale,
the armed conflict. This chronicle is the product Publisher: Panamericana Publisher: Penguin Random House
Genre: Chronicle Genre: Short Story recommendation or loss of a book. In some cases, he is
of many days spent following each story across ISBN: 978-958-30-4390-1 ISBN: 978-958-5458-048
little more than a witness to the events that mark the lives
Colombia. These testimonies are so heartfelt that Publication date: 04/30/2014 Publication date: 01/02/2018
20 N.º of pages: 184 N.º of pages: 136 of others along the fate of his books and their readers. 21
they often blur the line between journalism and Format: 15.5 x 23 cm Format: 13.5 x 23 cm
short fiction. Copyright free languages: All Copyright free languages: All

Álvaro Castillo Granada (Bucaramanga, 1969) is a

bookseller, reader, and editor. He worked as director
Author’s Pilar Lozano (Bogotá, 1951) is a journalist and writer. of Ediciones San Librario and Ediciones Isla de Libros. Author’s
Biography For 20 years, she was a correspondent for Spain’s El He is also the author of El libro (The Book) (2004), Julio Biography
País. She currently promotes reading and writing, Pilar Álvaro Cortázar (2005), En viaje (On the Road) (2007), De
gives talks on children’s rights, and teaches journalism Castillo cuando Pablo Neruda plagió a Miguel Ángel Macau
Lozano
workshops. Granada (When Pablo Neruda Plagirized Miguel Ángel Macau)
(2008), and Encuentros con Paco Ignacio Taibo II
(Encounters With Paco Ignacio Tiabo II) (2013).
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 Después de la ira Aves de paso
(When the Wrath Was Over) (Passing Birds)
CRISTIAN ROMERO EDUARDO PELÁEZ VALLEJO

Summary
Summary
A multinational corporation has come to town and
This is a moving portrait of the Peláez-Vallejo
wants to take over the land to plant genetically
family that depicts the generation living in Medellín
modified corn. As his crops wither and his property Data sheet Data sheet at the end of the 70‘s. Narrated from the author’s
crumbles, Samuel refuses to sell them the land he has Publisher: Alfaguara Publisher: Alfaguara
Genre: novela Genre: Novel recollections, his older siblings, Ricardo and Marta
left. His wife wants to protect their daughter from the ISBN: 9789585428744 ISBN: 9789585428119 Luz, are the unifying thread in a story that shows the
pestilence and the silent war that’s been unleashed, Publication date: 01/03/2018 Publication date: 01/05/2017
N.º of pages: 136 N.º of Pages: 320 emotional tapestry that holds families together.
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Cristian Romero (Antioquia, 1988) studied Audiovisual

Author’s and Multimedia Communications at the Universidad de Eduardo Peláez Vallejo (Antioquia, 1949) decided Author’s
Biography Antioquia. In 2015, Romero was awarded the Creators to devote his body and soul to writing after years of Biography
Grant by the Medellín Mayor’s Office in the category of Eduardo working with paso fino horses. His books, Retratos
outstanding author of a short story book for Ahora solo
Cristian Peláez (Portraits) (2001), Desarraigo (Uprooting) (2011),
queda la ciudad (Only the City Remains). In 2017, he Romero Vallejo Este caballero a caballo (The Gentelman on His Horse)
was part of the Bogotá 39 selection sponsored by the (2013) and his most recent, Aves de paso (Passing
Hay Festival. Birds), are the result of this decision.
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 Hotel París Tríptico de la infamia
(Hotel Paris) (A Triptych of Infamy)
MARÍA ISABEL ABAD PABLO MONTOYA

Summary
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Committed to Hotel Paris, a nursing home on the
In this novel, the author plunges the reader into an
outskirts of Medellín, Raquel struggles to find balance
era of major changes, controversies, and discoveries.
digging through the darkest moments of her past, all Data sheet Data sheet Through astounding testimonies, the novel recalls the
of which are tied to an extensive family dominated by Publisher: Penguin Random House Publisher: Penguin Random House
Genre: Novel Genre: Novel horrors of the Spanish Conquest and the religious
ambition and prejudice. There seems to be only one ISBN: 978-958-6397-520 ISBN: 978-958-5846-234
Publication date: 01/10/2017
wars that determined the fates of so many men and
way to confront what her life has been. Publication date: 08/01/2014
N.º of Pages: 224 N.º of Pages: 452 women. It also narrates the complex relationship
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between the Old and New Worlds in colonial
America.

Pablo Montoya (Barrancabermeja, 1963) has

Author’s María Isabel Abad (Medellín, 1980) studied
Biography Anthropology and Law at the Universidad de los Andes
and earned a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies
at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is currently
the director of Piñón de Oreja, a cultural project agency
in Medellín. Hotel París is her first novel.
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published La sed del ojo (Eye Thirst) (2004), Lejos
de Roma (Far From Rome) (2008), Los derrotados
(The Defeated) (2012), and Tríptico de la infamia (A Author’s
Triptych of Infamy) (2014). The latter earned him the Biography
María Pablo 2015 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award.
Isabel Montoya His books of poetry include, Terceto (Tercet) (2016),
Abad Cuaderno de París (Notebook from Paris) (2007), and
Sólo una luz de agua: Francisco de Asís y Giotto (Only
a water light: Francis of Assisi and Giotto) (2009).

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 Memoria de derrotas Historia oficial del amor
(Memory of Defeats) (Love: An Official Story)
RAFAEL BAENA RICARDO SILVA ROMERO

Summary
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This posthumous novel by Rafael Baena is a bold and
To explore the Silva Romero family tree is to see
touching narrative that recreates the passions and
his parents and children survive our history: from
hauntings of the author’s life. The non-fiction novel is Data sheet Data sheet the days of the “green wave” to the National Front;
a testimony to and a profound reflection on life, love, Publisher: Alfaguara Publisher: Alfaguara
Genre: Novel Genre: Novel from the Palace of Justice siege to the Bogotazo.
and the unavoidable nature of death. ISBN: 9789588948881 ISBN: 9789588948195 This is a novel that moves backwards through time.
Publication date: 02/01/2017 Publication date: 03/01/2016
N.º of pages: 282 N.º of Pages: 544 Occasionally tragic, occasionally comic, it is always
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a love story.
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Ricardo Silva Romero (Bogotá, 1975) has written

Rafael Baena (Sincelejo, 1956 – Bogotá, 2015) is the
author of Tanta sangre vista (So Much Blood was Seen)
(Alfaguara, 2007), ¡Vuelvan caras, carajo!, (Turn Your
Faces Damn it!) (2009), Samaria Films XXX (2010),
Author’s La bala vendida (The Sold Bullet) (Alfaguara, 2011),
Biography Siempre fue ahora o nunca (It’ Always Been Now or
Never) (Alfaguara, 2014), and Ciertas personas de
cuatro patas (Certain Four Legged Individuals). For
thirty-five years, he worked as photographer, reporter,
and press editor; the last years of his life were entirely
devoted to writing.
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several novels: Relato de Navidad en La Gran Vía (A
Story of Christmas on the Gran Vía), Walkman, Tic,
Parece que va a llover (It Looks like its Going to Rain),
Fin (The End), El hombre de los mil nombres (The
Man with a Thousand Names), En orden de estatura Author’s
(In Order of Stature), Autogol (Self Goal), Érase
Biography
Rafael Ricardo una vez en Colombia - Comedia romántica, and El
Baena Silva Espantapájaros (Once Upon a Time in Colombia- A
Romero Romantic Comedy and The Scarecrow), and El libro
de la envidia (A Book of Envy). Silva Romero is a

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columnist for Colombia’s El Tiempo and Spain’s El
País.
 Afuera crece un mundo La sed
(A World Grows Outside) (Thrist)
ADELAIDA FERNÁNDEZ OCHOA ENRIQUE PATIÑO

Summary
The year is 1840, and several runaway slaves and Summary
freedmen of Cauca have joined the “Los Supremos” Thousands have been displaced in the search for
army in hopes of supporting their own cause: the water. A collapsing country. The authorities only
abolition of slavery. But Nay of Gambia, a black Data sheet Data sheet defend the few places that still have reserves.
Publisher: Seix Barral Publisher: Planeta
woman who runs the dairy and vegetable garden Genre: Novel Genre: Novel Assailants swarm. Fifteen years before, a man lost
ISBN: 978-958-42-6317-9 ISBN: 978-958-42-4018-7 everything. Now, he attempts to survive alone in an
at one of the haciendas owned by the Jew Ibrahim Publication date: 04/10/2017 Publication date: 02/01/2013
Sahal, is convinced that true freedom is not granted N.º of Pages: 272 N.º of Pages: 250 barren landscape where each day seems to be the
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last. Is there still any humanity left in this man? What
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is to return to her country of origin. Together with her English, French, Italian, German, will become of this world that is coming to an end?.
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son, Sundiata, she will embark on a difficult journey
in pursuit of this dream.

Author’s Adelaida Fernández Ochoa (Cali, 1957) studied Enrique Patiño (Santa Marta, 1971) is a social Author’s
Biography Modern Languages at the Universidad del Valle. She communicator, photographer, and writer. Patiño has Biography
was awarded the 2015 Casa de las Américas Prize for Adelaida Enrique worked for media outlets such as Diners, El Tiempo,
her first novel, Afuera crece un mundo (A world Grows Fernández and Semana Magazine. He was awarded the Inter
Outside), originally titled La hoguera lame mi piel con
Patiño
Ochoa American Press Association Prize for best chronicle in
cariño de perro (The Fire Licks my Skin with a Dog’s the Americas.
Love).
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 Toño Ciruelo Soy asesino y padre de familia
(Toño Ciruelo) (I am a Killer and a Family Man)
EVELIO ROSERO FABIO RUBIANO

Summary
This novel develops out of the gut-wrenching Summary
exploration embodied by the antagonist, Eri Alejandro tried to be a good father and was a failure
Salgado, a terrified yet complacent witness who as a husband. Under orders from The Office, he tracks,
Data sheet Data sheet
reveals the story of a monster. It is a descent into Publisher: Tusquets Publisher: Seix Barral interrogates, and dismembers alleged subversives to
the core of evil destined to captivate and involve the
Genre: Novel Genre: novela correct their errant ways. He stores the remains of his
ISBN: 978-958-42-5759-8 ISBN: 978-958-42-5640-9
reader while simultaneously climbing to a literary Publication date: 02/03/2017 Publication date: 06/02/2017 victims in the cellar of his house. In this novel, Rubiano
N.º of Pages: 232 N.º of Pages:104 gives form to a victimizer’s point of view.
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English, Italian, Portuguese,
German, Arabic, Chinese.

Author’s Evelio Rosero (Bogotá, 1958) attended Social Fabio Rubiano (Fusagasugá, 1963) is a playwright, Author’s
Biography Communication courses at the Universidad Externado director, and actor. In 1985 he founded the Pe-Tra Biography
de Colombia. His book Los ejércitos (The armies) (2007), Theater with Marcela Valencia. He has written and
Evelio Fabio
has been translated into a dozen languages and was directed more than twenty plays, four of which have
awarded the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Rosero Rubiano been awarded the National Theater Award.
Prize (2009) in the United Kingdom.
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 La melancolía de los feos
El perfume del viento
(Hideous Melancholy)
(Perfume in the Wind)
MARIO MENDOZA TRIUNFO ARCINIEGAS

Summary
León Soler is an unmarried, childless psychiatrist Summary
pushing forty and stuck in a lifeless rut. He is a man Triunfo Arciniegas and illustrator Juan Camilo
obsessed with his work, until one morning a strange Mayorga worked hand in hand to create a poetic
letter turns up at his office. There’s no return address, Data sheet Data sheet universe where two different generations come
Publisher: Planeta Publisher: Loqueleo
just a drawing of a bat bearing a sign with the name Genre: Novel Genre: Illustrated Book together. In a scenery dense with nostalgia, the
ISBN: 978-958-42-5000-1 ISBN: 978-958-5444-25-6 friendship that develops between a boy and an old
of Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving: Melancholia. Publication date: 01/04/2016 Publication date: 01/04/2018
The contents of this letter, and those that follow, will N.º of Pages: 248 N.º of Pages: 52 man blossoms into an emotional confrontation with
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shake Soler from his routine, taking him back to his Copyright free languages: All
time’s inevitable passage.
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childhood.

Author’s Mario Mendoza (Bogotá, 1964) studied Literature Triunfo Arciniegas (Málaga, Santander, 1963) earned Author’s
Biography in Bogotá and Hispanic American Literature at the a Masters in Literature and specialized in Translation. Biography
Fundación José Ortega y Gasset Toledo. He is a regular Triunfo He won the 1989 Enka Prize and the National
Mario
contributor to several newspapers and magazines, and Children’s Theater Prize in 1998. He was included in
Mendoza Arciniegas the 2014 edition of White Ravens and the IBBY 2016
has published more than 20 books.
Honors List. Arciniegas was also nominated for the
2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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 Lo que la guerra se llevó Azares del cuerpo
(Gone with the War) (Body Mishaps)
OLGA BEHAR, CAROLINA ARDILA Y PABLO NAVARRETE MARÍA OSPINA

Summary
Given these statements from survivors who gazed into Summary
the eye of terror, we can no longer remain ignorant In this book, bodies drift; they look for each other, and
to the events that unfolded in the Colombia that lies sometimes they even get lost. They are interpreters,
deep within our nation. Collected by a crack team of
Data sheet Data sheet voices that confess a yearning to find others. Here,
Publisher: Ícono Publisher: Laguna Libros
interviewers, Lo que la guerra se llevó is a record Genre: Interview Genre: Short Story there is a story in all of our bodies.
ISBN: 978-958-5472-01-3 ISBN: 978-958-8812-78-6
of that which remains after decades of undocumented Publication date: 04/15/2018 Publication date: 18/02/2017
34 tragedy and pointless bloodshed: humanity sprouting N.º of Pages: 384 N.º of Pages: 164
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up amid the brutality. Copyright free languages: All Copyright free languages: All

Author’s Carolina Ardila (Mexico City, 1990) is a Political Maria Ospina (Bogotá, 1977) studied History at Author’s
Biography Scientist and has a Masters in International Relations; Brown University and obtained a PhD in Hispanic Biography
she is a teacher and writer. Pablo Navarrete (Cali, 1993)
Olga Behar, Literature from Harvard. She worked in curatorial
María
is a theater director, writer, editor, and Communications Carolina Ardila, and archival projects at the Luis Ángel Arango
Ospina library, where she created an anthology, Cartas de la
student. Olga Behar (Palmira, 1956) is a journalist, Pablo Navarrete
political scientist, writer, and teacher. She has written persistencia (Letters of Persistence). She is currently a
several books and has won important awards. professor at Wesleyan University.
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 Puñalada trapera El oro y la sangre
(A Stab in the Back) (Of Gold and Blood)
VARIOUS AUTHORS JUAN JOSÉ HOYOS

Summary
Juan Fernando Hincapié, author of Gramática pura Summary
(2015), brought together new and exciting names This collection of chronicles is a microcosm of
in Colombian literature to create this anthology of Colombia. When a member of the embera
short stories. With a wide variety of fiction, Puñalada
Data sheet Data sheet indigenous group finds a gold mine, a legion of
Publisher: Rey Naranjo Publisher: Sílaba
Trapera raises the stakes for Colombian short stories Genre: Short Story Genre: Chronicle adventurers, traders, swindlers, and guerrillas
ISBN: 978-958-8969-60-2 ISBN: 978-958-59598-4-2 swarm the community. A few casualties later, the
by reinvigorating the genre and the proposals coming Publication date: 28/02/2018 Publication date: 31/08/2016
from contemporary writers. N.º of Pages: 318 N.º of Pages: 224 gold rush leads to a war in which the indigenous
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people provide the fighters and suffer the casualties.

Stabbed in the Back has 22 texts from contemporary

Colombian writers; some are well established award Juan José Hoyos (Medellín, 1953) is a journalist and Author’s
Author’s
winning authors, others are just beginning their careers. writer. He was awarded the Simon Bolivar National Biography
Biography Juan
A few of the well-known names in this anthology Journalism Award for a Life and Work Devoted to
include: Luis Noriega (Gabriel García Márquez Various authors José Journalism in 2017. In 1994, he was awarded the
Hispanic American Short Story Award, 2016), Patricia Hoyos Germán Arciniegas Award. Hoyos is known as one of
Engel (Colombian Narrative Library Award, 2017), Colombia’s great chroniclers.
Margarita García Robayo, and Juan Cárdenas.
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 Reading Colombia: A Selection of Contemporary Colombian Authors [Leer a Colombia. Una selección de narrativa
colombiana contemporánea] is an initiative born from the desire to promote Colombia’s literary heritage and to achieve
international recognition for its writers. Organized by the National Library of Colombia and the Cultural Entrepreneurship
Group from the Ministry of Culture, in association with the Colombian Book Chamber, the project invited different Colombian
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publishing houses to nominate works of fiction and non-fiction from a variety of Colombian authors with the objective of
creating a catalog of Colombian narrative for international circulation. The catalogue gathers 28 works selected by a group
of experts from among 132 works nominated by more than 20 publishing houses across the country.
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