Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1973, and studied Latin American Literature at the Sorbonne. He has published eight novels, three collections of short stories, and four collections of literary essays.

His books are available in Greek from Ikaros Publications: The Sound of Things Falling (2014), The Informers (2015), The Shape of Remains (2018), The Sublimations (2019), Songs for the Fire (2020) and Turning the Gaze Back (2021).

He has been honoured with numerous international awards, the most significant of which are the Premio Alfaguara (2011), the English Pen Award (2012), the Prix Roger Caillois (2012), the Premio Von Rezzori (2013), the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2014), the Premio Real Academia Española (2014) and the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Award (2020).

His books have been published in 28 languages and in more than 40 countries. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic.