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ⓘ About Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a literary fiction author with a strong and incurable Anglophilia. He has said this is probably because his father stayed in London for three years while his uncle was his country’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Given that he was brought up in several different countries, he is now a trilingual translator. He has translated into Spanish works by John Dos Pasos, Victor Hugo, and EM Forster. He currently makes his home in Barcelona, where he lives with Mariana his wife who is the publicist to a publisher. The two have two kids Carlota and Martina who happen to be twins. Since the family moved to Europe from his native Colombia more than a dozen years ago, he has become obsessed with his homeland.
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The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2009
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Juan Gabriel Vásquez?
Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a literary fiction author with a strong and incurable Anglophilia. He has said this is probably because his father stayed in London for three years while his uncle was his country’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Given that he was brought up in several different countries, he is now a trilingual translator.
Which Juan Gabriel Vásquez series should I start with?
Juan Gabriel Vásquez's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is The Informers (2004).
How many books has Juan Gabriel Vásquez written?
Juan Gabriel Vásquez has 11 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2001 and 2021. They are filed under 3 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Standalone Novels, Anthologies and Collections.
In what order should Juan Gabriel Vásquez's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 11 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are Juan Gabriel Vásquez's books organised into series?
This guide splits Juan Gabriel Vásquez's 11 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (6 books); Anthologies (3 books); Collections (2 books).