Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Juan Gabriel Vasquez was recently nominated as one of the Bogotá 39, South America’s most promising writers of the new generation. His highly praised novel The Informers, the first of his books to be translated into English, has been published in eight languages worldwide, as well as being long-listed for the Warwick Prize for Writing.

In recent years, this star has been rising fast in the Hispanic world, with reviewers making comparisons with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, and Garcia Marquez, and now his reputation in the Anglophone world is gaining momentum.

In this Writers at Warwick event, Vasquez will be in conversation with Anne McLean, his English translator, whose work has been highly lauded. She is the only translator to have won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. She will bring her translator’s perspective to to the political and historical themes in Vasquez’s writing.

This event is supported by the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick