Hector Abad Faciolince
Colombian novelist whose Oblivion is a memoir about his father's assassination by Colombian paramilitaries, written with extraordinary grace and grief. It is one of the most celebrated works of recent Latin American literature.
Works
- OblivionNovel exploring memory, loss, and the weight of personal and national history
- The Ugliness of Others
- AngostaDystopian novel set in a vertically divided city exploring class and social inequality
- Basura
- El olvido que seremosMemento mori novel blending fact and fiction about the author's father's assassination