Pablo MONTOYA

(Colombia, 1963) Winner of the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (2015) and Casa de las Américas’ José María Arguedas Prize for Fiction (2017) for Tríptico de la infamia. He received the José Donoso Ibero-American Prize for Literature (2016) for his body of work and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Veracruz University (Mexico) for his literary and academic work (2023). He is a Full Member of the Colombian Academy of Language and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy in Spain. His most notable books, in addition to Tríptico de la infamia (2014), are the novels Lejos de Roma (2008), Los derrotados (2012), La escuela de música (2018), La sombra de Orión (2021), Marco Aurelio y los límites del imperio (2024) and El jardín del mundo (2026).