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Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author portrait
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s books including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and bestseller The Sound of Things Falling and the Booker International finalist The Shape of the Ruins, as well as Retrospective, Reputations, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collection Lovers on All Saints' Day. His work has been published in more than forty languages. He lives in Madrid.

Anne McLean is a translator who has twice won both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. She received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Vásquez for The Sound of Things Falling. She lives in Toronto.
Retrospective
Songs for the Flames
The Shape of the Ruins
Reputations
Lovers on All Saints' Day
The Sound of Things Falling
The Secret History of Costaguana
The Informers

Books

Retrospective
Songs for the Flames
The Shape of the Ruins
Reputations
Lovers on All Saints' Day
The Sound of Things Falling
The Secret History of Costaguana
The Informers

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