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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 .
Awards: Dublin (2014) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Informers (2008)
The Secret History of Costaguana (2010)
The Sound of Things Falling (2012)
Reputations (2016)
The Shape of the Ruins (2018)
Retrospective (2022)
The Secret History of Costaguana (2010)
The Sound of Things Falling (2012)
Reputations (2016)
The Shape of the Ruins (2018)
Retrospective (2022)
Collections
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2016)
Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare
edited by
Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez recommends
The Deserters (2025)
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Theft (2025)
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"Nobody writes about the world we call postcolonial like Abdulrazak Gurnah. His novels are uncompromising, but also stubbornly humane. They come at their subjects with open eyes, and we need what they see."
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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