In 2009, Antonio Yammara recalls his relationship years before with Ricardo Laverde, a man with a hidden past who was killed in the days when the drug trade in Colombia was at its height, and examines its effects on everyone in the country.
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de las colecciones de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y Canciones para el incendio (Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana) y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara, Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Las reputaciones (Premio Real Academia Española, Premio Literario Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Prémio Casa de América Latina de Lisboa), La forma de las ruinas (Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa y finalista del Man Booker Prize) y Volver la vista atrás (Premio Bienal de novela Mario Vargas Llosa 2021). Vásquez ha publicado también dos recopilaciones de ensayos literarios, El arte de la distorsión y Viajes con un mapa en blanco, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo y E. M. Forster, entre otros. Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar. En 2012 ganó en París el Prix Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra. En 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa, y en 2018 recibió la Orden de Isabel la Católica. Sus libros se publican en treinta lenguas.
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