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.
Fiebre Tropical, de Julián Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press, 2020), atrajo a los lectores por su uso radical e irreverente del spanglish, que descentra al inglés en Estados Unidos. Mientras leía…
La luz, aunque ya tenue, / permite ver el rostro de algunos parroquianos. / Todos son jubilados de grandes sindicatos ya desaparecidos,
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