Frank Báez, Cristina Bendek and Giuseppe Caputo in conversation with Yeniter Poleo

Frank Báez (Dominican Republic), Cristina Bendek (Colombia) and Giuseppe Caputo (Colombia) are from different places, and their writing too occupies different latitudes — poetry and non-fiction in the first case, novels and essays in the case of Bendek, and novels and also poetry in Caputo’s. But their creative processes all take place by the shores of the same sea: the Caribbean, with images and topics bathed by the same sun. Bajo otras luces, by Báez, is the portrait of a region and a book about exile, a poet’s personal view of a territory. Los cristales de la sal, by Bendek, talks about returning to one’s roots, to San Andrés, where the protagonist starts to question her identity and relationship with the island. La frontera encantada is a novel that is about the foundations of life, and one that acts as a kind of thousand and one nights in Barranquilla. In conversation with Yeniter Poleo.