Guardian newspaper searches for best Colombian literature
British newspaper The Guardian is featuring Colombia on its World Literature Tour, seeking books that capture the essence of the country. The tour is looking for a wide variety of…
British newspaper The Guardian is featuring Colombia on its World Literature Tour, seeking books that capture the essence of the country. The tour is looking for a wide variety of…
The Russian Orthodox Church has accused Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” widely considered to be a masterpiece, of encouraging and justifying pedophilia. Vsevolod Chaplin, a leading…
Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez has won the 2011 Alfaguara Spanish literary prize for his novel “El ruido de las cosas al caer” (The Sound of Things Falling). In a…
Colombian writer David Sanchez Juliao died in a hospital in the capital Bogota Wednesday. According to the hospital, the writer died early in the morning of heart problems, for which…
The sixth edition of Cartagena‘s Hay literature and arts festival drew 33,000 visitors, the organization told Spanish news agency EFE. The four-day festival starred internationally acclaimed artists like Philip Glass,…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia’s best-known writer, will release a book of his speeches on October 29 in Spain and Latin America, called “Yo no vengo a decir un discurso” (“I…
The renovated house of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is due to open in February but bears little resemblance to his original birthplace, claim frustrated visitors and town residents. At a first…
Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was put under close surveillance by the Mexican secret service during the 1970’s for his involvement in leftist politics and his ties…
I love books and I hate crowds. I went to the Bogota book fair hoping to see more of the former than of the latter, but picking a holiday was…