Juan Guillermo Sánchez was born in Bakatá-Andes in 1980. He has published the poetry books Rio (2010) and Salvia (2014); the book of short stories Diarios de nada (2011); the novels Balada / Track (2012) and Elevador (2015); the anthology Indigenous Message of Water (2014); and the research project Memory and Invention in the Poetry of Humberto Ak'abal (2011). In 2016, he was awarded with the National Prize for Literature in Colombia, granted by the University of Antioquia. He is currently a professor at UNC-Asheville.
My first imagined land was Romania, where my father was born. When I was a boy in Buenos Aires, my father hardly talked about his distant native Romania at all….
Hubiera querido escribir un ensayo más objetivo sobre mi relación con los idiomas, y la relación entre mis idiomas, pero no soy lingüista y no sería capaz de precisar detalles…
El problema tenía sus muertos, / mucho maltrato por no hablar el idioma, / siempre había alguna razón / para quitarnos pedazo a pedazo nuestra montaña,
decían: / —Debíamos dejar el…
