Héctor Abad Faciolince

Héctor Abad Faciolince (* 1958 in Medellín ) is a Colombian author , essayist and editor . He is best known for his multiple award-winning novels Angosta and El olvido que seremos (English letter to a shadow ).

Héctor Abad Faciolince (2011)

Life

Héctor Abad was born in Medellín ( Colombia ) in 1958 as the only boy along with five sisters. His father, Héctor Abad Gómez, was a well-known doctor, university professor and human rights activist whose vision of a holistic health system led him to found the Colombian National School of Public Health.

Abad moved to Mexico City in 1978 after graduating from a private Catholic school , as his father was appointed advisor to the Colombian embassy in Mexico. During this time, Abad attended literary , creative writing, and poetry workshops at La Casa del Lago, the National Autonomous University of Mexico's first off-campus cultural center. After the family returned to Colombia, he studied at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana until he was expelled from the university in 1982 because of an article critical of the pope. He emigrated to Italy , where he studied languages and modern literature at the University of Turin . In 1987 he returned to Colombia, but had to flee to Europe in the same year after his father was murdered by paramilitary troops . He lived again in Italy for another five years, worked as a lecturer at the University of Verona and translated the works of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Umberto Eco , among others .

In 1992 Abad returned to Colombia and began writing novels. For the novel Basura , published in 2000, he received the Premio de literatura innovadora de la Casa de América de Madrid; The novel Angosta was published in 2003 and the autobiographical text El olvido que seremos in 2006 , for which he received numerous international awards. Since his return he has also worked as a journalist - first as an editor for Cambio , published by Gabriel Garcia Márquez , and then for Semana magazine . Since 2007 Héctor Abad has been a columnist for the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador . In 2001, Wagenbach published Culinary Tracts for Sad Women in German ( Tratado de Culinaria para Mujeres Tristes ), later Letters to a Shadow: A Story from Colombia ( El olvido que seremos ) as well as The Poem in a Pocket and La Oculta by Berenberg Verlag .

Works

Culinary treatise for sad women Wagenbach Verlag, 2001.
Letter to a shadow Berenberg Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-937834-28-3
The poem in your pocket Berenberg Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-937834-43-6
La Oculta Berenberg Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-946334-00-2

Awards

1980: Colombian National Short Stories Award for Piedras de Silencio

1996: National Creative Writing Scholarship from the Colombian Ministry of Culture for Fragmentos de Amor Furtivo

1998: Simón Bolívar National Prize for Journalism

2000: 1st Casa de America Award for Innovative American Narrative for Basura

2004: Best Spanish- Language Book of the Year (People's Republic of China) for Angosta

2006: German Academic Exchange Service fellowship.

2007: National Book Award; Libros & Letras Latin American and Colombian Cultural Magazine for El Olvido que seremos

2007: Simón Bolívar National Prize for Journalism

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich von Berenberg: Introduction . In: Héctor Abad: Letter to a shadow . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2008. pp. 9-18, here p. 11.
↑ The obligation to be optimistic, Héctor Abad about his novel “La Oculta” Interview by Eva-Christina Meier in the taz from 11./12. June 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Abad Faciolince, Héctor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Colombian author, essayist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Medellin

[1] Heinrich von Berenberg: Introduction . In: Héctor Abad: Letter to a shadow . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2008. pp. 9-18, here p. 11.

[2] The obligation to be optimistic, Héctor Abad about his novel “La Oculta” Interview by Eva-Christina Meier in the taz from 11./12. June 2016