Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez at a reading, 2011

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (* 1973 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian writer and translator.

Life

Juan Gabriel Vásquez studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne . Before he achieved international fame with his award-winning novel The Informants , he had already made a name for himself as a translator of works by Victor Hugo , John Hersey , John Dos Passos and EM Forster and as an essayist. Vásquez is a columnist for the Colombian magazine El Espectador . He is considered an early critic of Macondismo , the exoticism of magical realism .

In 2011 he was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela for his novel El ruido de las cosas al caer . In 2014, he received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the licensed edition of the same novel, which was translated into English (local title The Sound of Things Falling ) , one of the most valuable literary prizes in the world with a total of 100,000 euros in prize money. In spring 2017 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt visiting professor for world literature at the University of Bern .

Vásquez lived in Barcelona with his wife and two daughters . After 16 years in Europe, the author returned to Bogotá with his family in 2012. Vásquez presented the German edition of his 2015 novel, The Shape of the Ruins , on a book tour in November 2018. The plot revolves around the national crisis of 1948, when the liberal politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was murdered on the street in Bogotá.

Works

  • Los amantes de Todos los Santos , 2001.
    • The lovers of All Saints' Day. Stories. Translated by Susanne Lange. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-007-3 .
  • Joseph Conrad: el hombre de ninguna parte , 2004, biography of Joseph Conrad
  • Los informantes , 2004.
    • The informants. Novel. Translated by Susanne Lange. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-005-9 .
  • Historia secreta de Costaguana , 2007.
    • The Secret History of Costaguanas. Novel. Translated by Susanne Lange. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-89561-006-6 .
  • El arte de la distorsión , 2009.
  • El ruido de las cosas al caer , 2010.
    • The sound of things falling. Translated by Susanne Lange. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-008-0 .
  • Las Reputaciones . Alfaguara 2013, ISBN 978-8420415130 .
  • La forma de las ruinas , Alfaguara, 2015, ISBN 978-84-204-1949-7 .
    • The shape of the ruins , novel, from the Spanish by Susanne Lange, Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt / Main 2018, 521 pp., ISBN 978-3-89561-017-2 .

Awards

literature

  • Karim Benmiloud (ed.), Juan Gabriel Vásquez: une archéologie du passé colombien récent , Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2017, 354 pp. ISBN 978-2-7535-5519-8 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Juan Gabriel Vasquez receives book prize endowed with 100,000 euros , Der Standard from June 12, 2014, accessed on July 7, 2014
  2. ^ Website Walter Benjamin Kolleg , accessed on February 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Traces of Violence Juan Gabriel Vásquez's novel "The Noise of Things When Falling" , review by Tobias Wenzel in Deutschlandradio Kultur on July 7, 2014, accessed July 8, 2014
  4. ^ "On the traces of violence" , Deutschlandfunk Kultur November 20, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018
  5. ↑ Website of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vásquez, Juan Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá