Javier Mallarino ist eine lebende Legende. Er ist der einflussreichste politische Karikaturist Kolumbiens, ein Mann, der in der Lage ist, ein Gerichtsurteil zu kippen, einen Bürgermeister zu stürzen oder ein Ministerium ins Wanken zu...

The Shape of the Ruins von Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

The Shape of the Ruins by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, whose recent novel, the best-selling Sound of Things Falling won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award, was...

As Colombia's most famous political cartoonist strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career, he contemplates how forty years before he gave up painting and began drawing caricatures to earn a...

Bogotá, Kolumbien, 1996. Den Jura-Professor Antonio Yammara und den wortkargen Ricardo Valverde verbindet das nachmittägliche Ritual des Billardspiels. In den verrauchten Räumen des Billardsalons in der Calle 14 entsteht eine...

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of the Alfaguara Prize Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn't choose to fight' The Times 'The...