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Colombian writer (born 1973)

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973) is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator.

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Author Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a critically acclaimed Colombian writer, translator, and award-winning author.

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in in Bogotá, Colombia, where he studied law before pursuing a degree in Latin American literature in Paris (–).

Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a critically acclaimed Colombian writer, translator, and award-winning author.

He has written many novels, short stories, literary essays, and numerous articles of political commentary.

His novel The Sound of Things Falling, published in Spanish in 2011, won the Alfaguara Novel Prize and the 2014 International Dublin Literary Award, among other prizes.

His novels have been published in 28 languages. In 2012, after living in Europe for sixteen years, in Paris, the Belgian Ardennes, and Barcelona, Vásquez moved with his family back to Bogotá.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in January He is the author of four previous novels, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana.

Biography and literary career

Youth and studies in Bogotá

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973,^[1] to Alfredo Vásquez and Fanny Velandia, both lawyers. He began to write at an early age, publishing his first stories in a school magazine at the age of eight.

During his teenage years, he began reading the Latin American writers of the boom generation: Gab