Montague Kobbe

MONTAGUE KOBBÉ is a German citizen with a Shakespearean name, born in Caracas, in a country that no longer exists, in a millennium that is long gone. During the past decade he has resided in London, Munich, Madrid and Anguilla--a recondite Leeward Island to which he has had ties for over 30 years.

His debut novel The Night of the Rambler (Akashic: NYC, 2013) deals with revolution and human dignity, and it earned a mention in the 2014 Premio Casa de las Américas for best English or Creole-language Caribbean book; his bilingual collection of flash fiction, Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges / Historias de camas y aeropuertos (Dog Horn: UK, 2014), comprises 50 stories in both English and Spanish; and his second novel On the Way Back (Akashic, 2016), is a hilarious social novel about the clash between the European and Caribbean ways of life.

An expert chiromancer and telepathist, his work features regularly in Sint Maarten's The Daily Herald and somewhat more sporadically in the Spanish portal fronterad.com. He has been published in The New York Times, the Miami Herald, Venezuela's El Nacional and Chile's Mercurio among many others, and keeps the blog, MEMO FROM LA-LA LAND, on https://memofromlalaland.wordpress.com/.

Most recently he coedited Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela (Ragpicker Press: 2016), the first collection of Venezuelan writing in English translation published in book form, and presently lives in Florence where he is working on his third novel.

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MONTAGUE KOBBÉ es un ciudadano alemán con nombre shakesperiano, nacido en Caracas, en un país que ya no existe, en un milenio que ya pasó.

Estudioso de la lengua, de todas las lenguas, busca sin conseguirlo combatir el anonimato y la inanición con el timo escrito y la quiromancia por armas predilectas. Su primera novela, THE NIGHT OF THE RAMBLER (Akashic: NYC, 2013), consiguió una mención del Premio Casa de las Américas 2014 y su colección bilingüe de micro relatos, TALES OF BED SHEETS AND DEPARTURE LOUNGES / HISTORIAS DE CAMAS Y AEROPUERTOS (DogHorn: UK, 2014), reúne 50 cuentos en castellano e inglés. Su más reciente novela, On the Way Back (Akashic: NYC, 2016), es una cómica aventura social que discurre en la remota isla de Anguilla.

Enamorado del humo y los espejos, pasa sus días ideando artimañas para encantar morenas y serpientes que a menudo publica en su columna quincenal en The Daily Herald de Sint Maarten, en su bitácora futbolera en el portal español fronterad.com o bajo los cuatro palos que sostienen el circo de su blog personal, MEMO FROM LA-LA LAND (https://memofromlalaland.wordpress.com/).

Recientemente ha coeditado CRUDE WORDS (Ragpicker Press, 2016), la primera colección de literatura venezolana traducida al inglés y publicada en formato de libro, y en la actualidad vive en Florencia, donde trabaja en su tercera novela.