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For Carlos, for our hunger As a boy I was hungry, bam. I came home running, jumping, and my mother would say: “Cut it out! Don’t move so much or you’ll be even hungrier,” but I said to her: “No, lady. You cut it out, you’re trapped, you cut it out: I’m a pirate […]
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Almost, almost there, but not quite. Something woke me up. A noise. I’m dripping wet, but I didn’t get there. I’m still half asleep. Nearly, but not quite. The wind is blowing through the coffee groves; maybe a branch fell onto one of the bushes. It’s funny and a little embarrassing. I was dreaming about […]
I came across him the other day when I was looking for the snorkel fins in the storage space. I didn’t even remember that I’d left him there. He was covered in dust and had a thin spider web in his hair. I wiped it away. He was still dressed in his blue pants and […]
Ricardo González loved to go to the cinema. His first major cinematic memory, many years ago now, was of a black-and-white film about cops and robbers. Before that he only went to the cinema occasionally, once or twice a month, but after that film everything changed. As he was leaving the theatre he felt a […]
Giuseppe Caputo is a Colombian writer. He was born in Barranquilla in 1982 and studied Creative Writing at the University of New York and the University of Iowa, where he also specialized in queer and gender studies. Giuseppe is the author of the novel A World Orphan, published in Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Chile and whose English […]
Juan Sebastián Cárdenas is a Colombian writer and translator. He was born in Popayán, Cauca, in 1978. He moved to Madrid in 1998, where he has worked as a reader, editor and proofreader for several publishing houses. He studied Philosophy at the Javeriana University of Bogotá and, after moving to Spain, at the Complutense University […]
Carolina Vegas is a Colombian writer, journalist and feminist. She was born in Bogotá in 1981. In 2014 she has published her first novel, El cuaderno de Isabel, about the life of a cultural journalist diagnosed with breast cancer. Vegas is a master in modern letters from the prestigious Ibero-American University in México, and she […]
Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela was a Colombian writer and filmmaker. He was born in Cali, in 1951, where he lived most of his life, until his suicide in 1977, at 25 years of age. Although he is not well known in Latin America, he is considered one of the most original authors of Colombian literature […]
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