MLF and Instituto Cervantes are honoured to present one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature, Juan Gabriel Vásquez. He was was born in Bogotá in 1973, studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne and currently lives in Barcelona. Ever since the publication of his first novel, The Informers, he has consistently impressed readers and reviewers with his talent, wisdom and his astonishing narrative maturity. His second novel, The Secret History of Costaguana, a riposte to Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, is one of huge scope and ambition, by turns tragic and despairing, comic and insightful. Vásquez was recently nominated as one of the ‘Bogota 39’, South America’s most promising writers of the new generation. This event is in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English.