Friday, April 27, 2007

Bogota39

Bogotá, this year's World Book Capital, and the Hay Festival presented a list of the new generation of Latin American Novelists.

This selection was made by a jury composed three Colombian novelists Piedad Bonnet, Oscar Collazos y Héctor Abad Faciolince, from the suggestions made by readers, editors and literary agents in the Hay Festival web site.

Here's the Bogotá39 list of 39 Latin American novelists under 39 years:

  • Andrés Neuman, Argentina - 30 years.
  • Pedro Mairal, Argentina - 37 years.
  • Gonzalo Garcés, Argentina - 33 years.
  • Rodrigo Hasbún, Bolivia - 27 years.
  • Veronica Stigger, Brasil - 34 years.
  • Santiago Nazarian, Brasil - 30 years.
  • Adriana Lisboa, Brasil - 37 years.
  • João Paulo Cuenca, Brasil - 29 years.
  • Alejandro Zambra, Chile - 32 years.
  • Alvaro Bisama, Chile - 32 years.
  • Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colombia - 34 years.
  • Antonio Ungar, Colombia - 30 years.
  • Ricardo Silva, Colombia - 32 years.
  • Pilar Quintana, Colombia - 35 years.
  • John Junieles, Colombia - 37 years.
  • Antonio García, Colombia - 35 years.
  • Karla Suárez, Cuba - 38 years.
  • Ena Lucía Portela, Cuba - 35 years.
  • Rolando Menéndez, Cuba - 37 years.
  • Wendy Guerra, Cuba - 37 years.
  • Leonardo Valencia, Ecuador - 38 years.
  • Gabriela Alemán, Ecuador - 39 years.
  • Claudia Hernández, El Salvador - 32 years.
  • Eduardo Halfon, Guatemala - 36 years.
  • Jorge Volpi, México - 39 years.
  • Guadalupe Nettel, México - 35 years.
  • Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, México - 39 years.
  • Álvaro Enrigue, México - 38 years.
  • Carlos Wynter Melo, Panama - 36 years.
  • José Pérez Reyes, Paraguay - 34 years.
  • Ivan Thays, Peru - 39 years.
  • Santiago Roncagliolo, Perú - 32 years.
  • Daniel Alarcón, Perú - 30 years.
  • Yolanda Arroyo, Puerto Rico - 37 years.
  • Junot Díaz, Dominican Republic - 39 years.
  • Pablo Casacuberta, Uruguay - 38 years.
  • Claudia Amengual, Uruguay - 38 years.
  • Slavko Zupcic, Venezuela - 37 years.
  • Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Venezuela - 26 years.


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