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about the legalization of drugs, about gay marriage, about abortion - politicians are never able to take them to the field of moral discussion, which is where they should be discussed. They discuss them in religious terms, they discuss them in political terms (in the most banal sense of the word). But they rarely try to understand these things from the point of view of individuals. Who are we hurting? Whose lives are we destroying or seriously affecting with a decision? This is not what they talk about.
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For me it is still relevant for a novelist to participate in the social debate. For a philosopher too, for that matter; in any case, someone who thinks about reality in moral terms. Politicians do not usually do it, least of all in my country. The great contemporary debates in societies such as mine,
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Vásquez later repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with his first two books, which he thought of as the works of an apprentice. He has refused to reissue them after their initial publication. Both are short novels with an intimate atmosphere, but otherwise have little in common. Vásquez has said
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Gabriel Vásquez … has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia, a country that can boast of many eminent authors … Readers might expect that Vásquez has written a noir detective novel that investigates a crime that has gone unpunished for seventy years and restores some
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is by far the most difficult challenge that I have faced as a novelist. In part, this is due to everything the novel tries to do at the same time: it is an autobiography, a historical exploration, a criminal novel, a conspiracy theory, a meditation on what we are as a country ... I had to write 26
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September 1999, Vásquez married Mariana Montoya. They settled in Barcelona. Vásquez has invoked three reasons for choosing that destination: the link between Barcelona and the Latin American Boom, the opportunities the city offered to someone who wanted to earn a living by his pen, and the open
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is a book that can be admired infinitely, but whose teachings are hardly applicable (the proof is what happens to its copycats). So I will repeat here what I have said elsewhere: no
Colombian writer with a minimum of ambition would dare to follow through the paths already explored by the works of
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With his book of
Belgian short stories and his five Colombian novels, Vásquez has accumulated an impressive body of work, one of the most striking to have emerged in Latin America so far this century … Like Conrad’s best novels, Vásquez’s are tautly written—every line is charged with acute
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1999 was a crucial year for
Vasquez, both professionally and personally. Between January and September, Vásquez lived near Xhoris, a small town in the Walloon area of Belgium in the home of an older couple in the Ardennes. He has frequently stressed the importance of this period.
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That right to mix traditions and languages with impunity - to unapologetically look for contamination, to break with the staggered national or linguistic loyalties that tormented
Colombian writers until recently - is, perhaps, the great legacy of García Márquez …
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With the novel, Vásquez became the first Latin
American to win the Premio Casino da Póvoa, Portugal’s most prestigious award for fiction in translation. The novel was also shortlisted for the Premio Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa and for the
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in 1973, 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
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Magazine, one of the most influential
Colombian publications, chose it as one of the most important novels published since 1981. In a few years, it was translated into more than a dozen languages. In England, where it was endorsed by
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saluted it as “the best verbal creation I have read in all the
Colombian literature of recent times”. The novel provoked similar enthusiasm in translation. In Italy, it won the
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project that brought together the most notable Latin American writers under 39 years of age. That same year he began writing opinion pieces for
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During the early years in Barcelona, Vásquez also worked as a translator. He was commissioned to do the first translation published in Spain of
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different versions to discover the one that best suited the book. Or rather: the one that was able to put everything together in the same plot.
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Iliad, later published by his alma mater. By the time he received his diploma, he had already decided to pursue a career as a writer.
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García Márquez; but no writer with a minimum of common sense would underestimate the possibilities that this work has opened for us.
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in Venezuela. His political positions seem to defend freedom as a supreme value and an open, secular and liberal society:
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observation and analysis. In this he also recalls Borges, albeit in a more down-to-earth, nonmetaphysical mode.
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he concentrated on translation and journalism as ways to earn a living. He wrote articles and book reviews for
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In 2016 the Barcelona-based publisher Navona commissioned Vásquez to translate one of his favorite novels,
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Resistencia de los negros en el virreinato de México (siglos XVI-XVII)
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Peace has been reached in Colombia. Amid the Relief is Apprehension
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in Spanish). The book was published in November of that same year.
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and Catalan cultural critic Jordi Carrión. The Chilean novelist
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez: Une archéologie du passé colombien récent
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez at Riverhead Books | Penguin Random House
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semblance of justice. Nothing, however, is that orderly in
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for post-graduate studies in Latin American literature at
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991:2014 - Premio Real Academia Española (Spain) for
1405:In 1940s Colombia, Blacklists and 'Enemy Aliens'
1197:La venganza como prototipo legal alrededor de la
1010:2016 - Prix Carbet des Lycéens (Martinique) for
390:His short story "The Messenger" was included in
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1463:Héctor Abad Faciolince. "La música del ruido".
1155:2001 (Colombia; 2008, expanded version, Spain)
426:In 2000, Vásquez began working as an editor at
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323:. He graduated in 1996 with a thesis entitled
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1510:Juan Gabriel Vásquez. "La paz sin mentiras".
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358:In Paris, Vásquez finished his first novel,
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195:Premio Gregor Von Rezzori - Città di Firenze
1437:Juan Gabriel Vásquez. "La vieja pregunta".
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258:, published in Spanish in 2011, won the
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1454:. Antwerp: University of Antwerp, 2015.
1388:A Life in Writing: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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325:Revenge as a legal prototype in the
264:International Dublin Literary Award
201:International Dublin Literary Award
1255:Vervaeke, Jasper (March 1, 2018).
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1652:Juan Gabriel Vásquez at Alfaguara
1157:- Los amantes de Todos los Santos
619:In 2007, Vásquez was included in
382:The season in the Ardennes (1999)
279:Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in
2003:21st-century Colombian novelists
1998:20th-century Colombian novelists
1099:The Secret History of Costaguana
1095:- Historia secreta de Costaguana
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1043:Man Booker International Prize
1030:Order of Isabella the Catholic
1028:2018 - Officer's Cross of the
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716:The New York Times Book Review
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612:One Hundred Years of Solitude
510:. In 2003, Vásquez published
270:Biography and literary career
219:Prix Carbet des Lycéens 2016
1499:The New York Review of Books
1204:Viajes con un mapa en blanco
1172:- Canciones para el incendio
1110:The Sound of Things Falling,
889:Viajes con un mapa en blanco
834:The New York Review of Books
764:The New York Review of Books
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1041:2019 - Shortlisted for the
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745:The return to Bogotá (2012)
691:The Sound of Things Falling
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500:Last Day of a Condemned Man
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255:The Sound of Things Falling
119:1973 (age 50–51)
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1161:The All Saints’ Day Lovers
904:Canciones para el incendio
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516:El hombre de ninguna parte
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1132:The Shape of the Ruins,
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1223:Los desacuerdos de paz
1047:The Shape of the Ruins
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1305:Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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997:2016 - Chevalier de
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881:Friedrich Dürrenmatt
808:Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
247:political commentary
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107:Vásquez at the 2016
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2023:Writers from Bogotá
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1420:Jonathan Yardley. '
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955:Prix Roger Caillois
751:Stanford University
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180:Alfaguara de Novela
2008:Colombian atheists
1757:Michel Houellebecq
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1527:, October 1, 2016.
1514:, August 18, 2016.
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1078:- Alina suplicante
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