International award-winning writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been described by Mario Vargas Llosa as ‘One of the most original voices of Latin American literature’.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, one of the most inventive and educated Colombians to emerge from a generation of writers, was awarded the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Spain’s Alfaguara Prize and Italy’s
Gregor von Rezzori Prize for his last novel, The Sound of Things Falling. He has also won the Prix Roger Caillois and been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Please join Juan Gabriel Vásquez in a one-to-one interview with Arifa Akbar, former literary editor of the Independent, judge for the Orwell Prize in 2013, the Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014, and the British Book Industry Award in May 2016, about the publication of his new book in English “Reputations”, and his contribution to “Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare”.
The talk, in English, will be followed by a wine reception and book signing by the author.
An activity in collaboration with The Embassy of Colombia to the UK, Bloomsbury and And Other Stories
Free Entry. RSVP: http://bit.ly/jgvasquez
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