Álvaro Escobar-Molina

Álvaro Escobar-Molina (* 1943 in Colombia ) is a Colombian writer. He has lived in Paris for 20 years .

There he works and teaches psychology at the University of Amiens . As a clinical therapist, he is particularly concerned with artists and prisoners. He celebrated his first successes as a writer with his only novel The Sleeping Mountain to date .

In this book, Escobar-Molina writes back to his childhood. In the idyll of a Colombian Andean village , the little Indian Álvaro lives embedded in the extended family. His parents teach him to live in harmony with nature, to hear the voices of the water and the wind, and his aunts and grandparents also teach him all their wisdom. For example, his grandmother tells him about the Stars' Cemetery, which takes Álvaro away forever from fear of dying. But when the Cordillera, the sleeping mountain, wakes up, Álvaro suspects the end of his protected and familiar world. Escobar-Molina tells of a fairytale childhood which, however, comes to an abrupt end due to the Colombian civil war . With his novel he shows a piece of a precious, but slowly lost way of life and at the same time processes the loss of his own homeland, Colombia.

Works

• The sleeping mountain (French: La montagne ensommeillée ), Piper Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3492045049

Web links

• Literature by and about Álvaro Escobar-Molina in the catalog of the German National Library