Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1973. He studied Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and made Barcelona his home for over a decade. He is the author of the novels... The informants, Costaguana's secret history (Qwerty Award) The sound of things falling. (Alfaguara Prize, English Pen Award, Impac Dublin Literary Prize, Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze Prize), Reputations (Prize from the Royal Spanish Academy, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Award, Prize from the Casa da América Latina in Lisbon, finalist for the Médicis and Femina Prizes) and The shape of the ruins (Winner of the Casino da Póvoa Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize, and finalist for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize). She has published two volumes of short stories: Los lovers of all saints and Songs for the fire, as well as two books of essays The art of distortion and Travels with a blank mapIn addition to a brief biography of Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parteAs a translator, he was responsible for translating works by John Hersey, John Dos Passos, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster, among others, and writes regularly for various newspapers.
His books have been published in 30 languages ​​and in more than 40 countries, with extraordinary critical and public success. He has twice won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize for his journalistic work. In 2012, he was awarded the Roger Caillois Prize in Paris for his body of work, an award previously given to authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Chico Buarque, Milton Hatoum, and Roberto Bolaño.
In Portugal, Alfaguara has the following novels in its catalog: The Informers (2020), The Shape of the Ruins (2017), Reputations (2015) and The Noise of Things Falling (2012).