Santiago Gamboa
COLOMBIA, 1965
LA OTRA ORILLA LITERARY AWARD 2009
Santiago Gamboa studied literature at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He then emigrated to Europe and lived in Madrid, where he graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University, and in Paris, where he studied Cuban Literature at the Sorbonne University.
His works include Perder es cuestión de método (Losing: it's just a question of Technique, 1997; made into a film in 2005 by director Sergio Cabrera), El síndrome de Ulises (The Ulysses Syndrome, 2005; finalist for the 2007 Rómulo Gallegos Award, finalist for the 2007 Medicis Award for best foreign novel in France and the 2008 Casino de Povoa Award in Portugal), Hotel Pekin (2008), Necropolis (La Otra Orilla Award, 2009) and Colombian Psycho, among others. His books have been translated into more than 16 languages.
“Gamboa is, along with García Márquez, the most importan Colombian writer."
Manuel Vásquez Montalbán
"Gamboa's narrative is reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño's in his masterful use of intrigue, the complexity of his literary references, and his gritty take on violence, sex, and drugs."
Publishers Weekly
“With elegance and narrative virtuosity, Gamboa falls within the tradition
of the urban adventure novel, providing a cosmopolitan impulse
to European literature."
Frankfurter Rundschau
"One of the most interesting Latin American writers nowadays."
La Nación
"Gamboa's talent at cultivating intrigue and the extravagant energy of his stories make him compulsive reading."
Times Literary Supplement
"Modern Rabelais in Latin version. [...] His books are veritable orgies of pain, joy, greed, guilt, rebellion and devouring."
Marine De Tilly, Le Point
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By Santiago Gamboa
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Prison City. Things to do in the afternoon prior to the end of the world
ESSAY, 2023
This is Santiago Gamboa's most personal book yet. Written over a three-year period, it contains a set of honest and enthralling texts in which the author reflects on his life, work, favourite...
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NOVEL, 2022
« The word that best defines this violent, bereft republic is orphanhood. And what each of us truly is, deep down, is what we all want to conceal. » Following the shocking discovery...
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NOVEL, 2019
A boy witnesses a brutal attack on a remote country road in the Department of Cauca. No one in the nearest town claims to have heard anything but an anonymous report finds its way to public...
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NOVEL, 2016
Manuela Beltrán, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to resort to...
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NOVEL, 2014
Thanks to the International Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Prize for the Essay, the narrator, a philologist, is able to buy his house. After years spent desiring it, staring at it, and touching...
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TRAVEL JOURNAL, 2013
In this travel diary of a trip through the Middle East, Santiago Gamboa recounts his experiences in Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Amman, Petra, and Aqaba: the habits and customs of the men and...
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NOVEL, 2012
" A young man in a dirty, dank cell in Bangkok; a woman lying in bed next to a man she doesn't love, pretending to be asleep. Words, words, words. ...
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NOVEL, 2009
LA OTRA ORILLA LITERARY AWARD 2009 Following a long illness, a writer is invited to a biography conference in Jerusalem where the accounts of the odd lives of the conference participants come...
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NOVEL, 2008
Colombian Francisco Munévar unblinkingly renounces his country, his language and his identity to become Frank Michalski, the “star trainer” of an American economic assistance...
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NOVEL, 2005
A young writer who washes dishes in a nightmarish kitchen of an oriental restaurant evokes the voices of friends and numerous women in a dizzying testimony of African, oriental, Latin and also...
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NOVEL, 2002
A journalist living in Paris who has always wanted to be a writer, a philologist determined to travel in search of experience, following in the footsteps of a writer he admires, and a failed...
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Losing: it's Just a Question of Technique
NOVEL, 1997
A call from the police is hardly an unusual thing in the journalist Victor Silanpa’s life. However, this one in particular is going to be pretty disturbing, not just because of the brutal...
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