Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Biography

Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer and journalist born in Bogotá in 1973 to Alfredo Vásquez and Fanny Velandia. He began writing at age eight and was heavily influenced by Latin American writers of the boom generation, including García Márquez and Vargas Llosa. His novel "The Sound of Things Falling" won the Alfaguara Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award in 2014, cementing his literary reputation.