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Héctor Abad Faciolince

This Colombian writer and journalist studied Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Turin. Shortly after his return to Colombia, paramilitaries murdered his father and threatened the writer himself, so he left for Italy again, where he was translating Italian literature. In addition to essays, short stories, poems, translations and literary criticism, he has published several novels, the most successful, El olvido que seremos (Oblivion: A Memoir, 2005) was made into a film in 2020 by Fernando Trueba. His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. In June 2023, he was injured in the Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk during a meeting with the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina (Amelina succumbed to her injuries).

 Héctor Abad Faciolince

Guest program

Héctor Abad: Librarian for one day

Book World Prague 2024

17:00 - 17:30

Instituto Cervantes v Praze, Český rozhlas Vltava, A2

Héctor Abad, the Colombian writer, journalist and editor, will give us his personal view on his profession, work, influences and choice of reading, in...

Saturday, 25. 5. 2024

Colombia, between literature and journalism

Book World Prague 2024

18:00 - 18:50

Instituto Cervantes v Praze, Český rozhlas Vltava, A2, Svět knihy

Czech, Spanish

The boundary between the literary and the journalistic can be blurred, especially in a country like Colombia, the birthplace of magical realism and characters...

Saturday, 25. 5. 2024