Bogotá39 was a collaborative project between the
Hay Festival
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, better known as the Hay Festival (), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was d ...
and
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...
: UNESCO World Book Capital City 2007 in order to identify 39 of the most promising Latin American writers under the age of 39.
Bogota39 official website
/ref> The judges for the contest were three Colombian writers: Piedad Bonnett, Héctor Abad Faciolince
Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling nov ...
and Óscar Collazos. The success of this project led to a similar project two years later called Beirut39
Beirut39 is a collaborative project between the Hay Festival, Beirut UNESCO's World Book Capital 2009 celebrations, '' Banipal'' magazine and the British Council among others in order to identify 39 of the most promising Arab writers under the age ...
, which selected 39 of the most promising writers from the Arab world. Africa39 followed in 2014.
The 2007 list
* Adriana Lisboa (Brazil)
* Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas (Santiago, Chile, born September 24, 1975) is a Chilean poet, short-story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the " Bogotá39" (the ...
(Chile)
* Álvaro Bisama (Chile)
* Álvaro Enrigue (Mexico)
* Andrés Neuman (Argentina)
* Antonio García Angel (Colombia)
* Antonio Ungar (Colombia)
* Carlos Wynter Melo (Panama)
* Claudia Amengual
Claudia Amengual Puceiro (born 7 January 1969, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer and translator. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
Biography
She obtained her degrees in translation and literature at the University ...
(Uruguay)
* Claudia Hernández González (El Salvador)
* Daniel Alarcón (Peru)
* Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon (born 1971) is a Guatemalan writer.
Career
Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City, moved to the United States at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, ...
(Guatemala)
* Ena Lucía Portela
Ena Lucía Portela (born 19 December 1972) is a Cuban novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She focuses on lesbian subjects.
Biography
Ena Lucía Portela was born in Havana, 19 December 1972. She graduated from the University of Havana with ...
(Cuba)
* Fabrizio Mejía Madrid (Mexico)
* Gabriela Alemán
Gabriela Alemán (born September 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Ecuadorian writer and educator, whose work has been translated into multiple languages.
Biography
Born to Ecuadorian parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she live ...
(Ecuador)
* Gonzalo Garcés (Argentina)
* Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico)
* Iván Thays (Peru)
* João Paulo Cuenca (Brazil)
* John Jairo Junieles (Colombia)
* Jorge Volpi
Jorge Volpi (full name Jorge Volpi Escalante, born July 10, 1968) is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as ''In Search of Klingsor ( En busca de Klingsor)''. Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s wi ...
(Mexico)
* José Pérez Reyes
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(Paraguay)
* Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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His novel ''The Sound of Things Falling'', publishe ...
(Colombia)
* Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz ( ; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at '' Boston Review''. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience ...
(Dominican Republic)
* Karla Suárez (Cuba)
* Leonardo Valencia (Ecuador)
* Pablo Casacuberta (Uruguay)
* Pedro Mairal (Argentina)
* Pilar Quintana (Colombia)
* Ricardo Silva (Colombia)
* Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela)
* Rodrigo Hasbún (Bolivia)
* Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba)
* Santiago Nazarian (Brasil)
* Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru)
* Slavko Župčić
Slavko Župčić (born 1970) is a Venezuelan psychiatrist and writer.
Life
He was born in the northern city of Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia, the son of a Croats, Croatian father who had migrated to Venezuela in the 1950s. Župčić has a PhD ...
(Venezuela)
* Veronica Stigger (Brasil)
* Wendy Guerra
Wendy Guerra (born 11 December 1970), formally Wendy Guerra Torres, is a Cuban poet and novelist, based in Miami.
After a brief career acting in Cuban film and television, she turned to writing and won recognition more readily abroad than within ...
(Cuba)
* Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (born 29 October 1970) is a Puerto Rican novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Biography
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro was born on 29 October 1970 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and was raised by her grandparents, Petronila Car ...
(Puerto Rico)
The 2017 list
* Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba)
* Frank Báez (Dominican Republic)
* Natalia Borges Polesso (Brazil)Carlos Fonseca Suárez
Carlos Fonseca Suárez (born 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer and academic. He is the author of the novels ''Colonel Lágrimas'', ''Museo animal'', and ''Austral'. ''In 2016, he was selected by the Guadalajara ...
(Costa Rica)
* Damián González Bertolino (Uruguay)
* Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Puerto Rico)
* Gabriela Jauregui (Mexico)
* Laia Jufresa (Mexico)
* Mauro Libertella (Argentina)
* Brenda Lozano (Mexico)
* Valeria Luiselli (Mexico)
* Alan Mills (Guatemala)
* Emiliano Monge (Mexico)
* Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda Franco (born 17 May 1988) is an Ecuadorian writer. A native of Guayaquil, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, followed by a master's degree from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra de ...
(Ecuador)
* Eduardo Plaza (Chile)
* Eduardo Rabasa (Mexico)
* Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia)
* Juan Manuel Robles (Peru)
* Cristian Romero (Colombia)
* Juan Pablo Roncone (Chile)
* Daniel Saldaña París
Daniel Saldaña París (born 1984) is a Mexican poet, essayist, and novelist. He gained acclaim for his debut novel ''En medio de extrañas víctimas'' and its follow-up ''El nervio principal'' (published in English by Charco Press and Coffee H ...
(Mexico)
* Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)
* Jesús Miguel Soto (Venezuela)
* Luciana Sousa (Argentina)
* Mariana Torres (Brazil)
* Valentín Trujillo (Uruguay)
* Claudia Ulloa
Claudia Ulloa Donoso (born 6 September 1979) is a Peruvian writer. She was born in Lima, and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø.
Career
Her published work includes the short story collect ...
(Peru)
* Diego Zúñiga (Chile)
References
Latin American literature
2007 introductions
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