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          5. Juan Gabriel Vásquez

          Colombian writer (born )

          Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born ) is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. He has written many novels, short stories, literary essays, and numerous articles of political commentary.

          His novel The Sound of Things Falling, published in Spanish in , won the Alfaguara Novel Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, among other prizes. His novels have been published in 28 languages.

          Juan Gabriel Vasquez is inventive like Borges and elaborative like Garcia Marquez.

          In , after living in Europe for sixteen years, in Paris, the Belgian Ardennes, and Barcelona, Vásquez moved with his family back to Bogotá.

          Biography and literary career

          Youth and studies in Bogotá

          Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in ,[1] to Alfredo Vásquez and Fanny Velandia, both lawyers.

          He began to write at an early age, publishing his first stories in a school magazine at the age of eight. During his teenage years, he began reading the Latin American writers of the boom generation: Gabriel García Márquez, Mari