Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Alfaguara Prize, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, the Prix Roger Caillois and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Reputations was awarded the Royal Spanish Academy Prize in 2014. His books have been published in twenty-six languages and forty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogotà.
Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Javier Cercas, Hector Abad, Carmen Martin Gaite, Julio Cortàzar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisòn, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tomàs Eloy Martínez. She lives in Toronto.
<b>Vasquez’s prose, translated by Anne MacLean, is spare and effective, with a pleasing precision … A strong writer with a compelling vision</b>
Guardian
With this slim, clever book about the ebb and flow of history, and its unreliable companion memory, Vásquez shows that Latin America literature has, whatever he has to say about magical realism, lost none of its magic
Sunday Telegraph
<b>A troubling story of a political cartoonist who finds his convictions tested when a traumatic past event returns to haunt him ... will take you far away into different and secret worlds</b>
- Mariella Fostrup, Observer
<b>This brief, elusive novel is all the more memorable for its gaps – not least the gap between our memories and the truth (whatever, in its turn, that may be)</b>
Sunday Times
Vasquez has a searching style, which prods at the past and uncovers memories … <i>Reputations</i> is also a fascinating portrait of an artist … Deeply engaging and well-crafted
Herald
<b>An affecting, carefully paced work of psychological realism</b>
Times Literary Supplement
A masterful writer
<b>Nicole Krauss</b>
<b>A thrilling new discovery</b>
Colm Tóibín
This is a magnificent novel, short and dense, whose three parts are calibrated to the millimetre
<i><b>Le Monde</b></i>
<b>This is a powerfully written novella and Vásquez’s prose, as always, has a stark elegance that lends it weight</b>
Frank Wynne
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Alfaguara Prize, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, the Prix Roger Caillois and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Reputations was awarded the Royal Spanish Academy Prize in 2014. His books have been published in twenty-six languages and forty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogotà.
Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Javier Cercas, Hector Abad, Carmen Martin Gaite, Julio Cortàzar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisòn, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tomàs Eloy Martínez. She lives in Toronto.