(Popayán, Colombia, 1979) In 2004 he published his first book, Los mártires, a collection of fictional writings about writers. In 2007 he published El naufragio del Imperio, and in 2010 ¡Calcio!, which won him the Espartaco Prize for Historical Fiction at Gijón’s Semana Negra. In May 2014 El hombre que no fue Jueves was published; this was awarded the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize. This was followed in 2019 by his most recent novel, Álvaro: Su vida y su siglo. Cartas abiertas. He writes for El Tiempo newspaper and has three daughters.
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