Juan Gabriel V¡squez

Juan Gabriel V¡squez was born in Bogot¡ in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Award, the Qwerty prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 214 IMPAC Prize. His books have been published in sixteen languages and thirty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogot¡. Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Hector Abad, Carmen Mart­n Gaite, Julio Cort¡zar, Ignacio Mart­nez de Pis³n, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tom¡s Eloy Mart­nez. She lives in Toronto.