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Adalber Salas Hernández

  • Por Juan Camilo Rincón

"En mi escritura hay una afinidad por lo antiguo, lo fragmentario, lo perteneciente a ningún sitio, lo que se ha visto desplazado."

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Juan Camilo Rincón
Escritor, periodista e investigador cultural

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Carolina Rueda

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Lisbeth Salas

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Equipo de Comunicaciones de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (FILBO) 2024

Adalber Salas Hernández is the author of the poetry books Salvoconducto (Pre-Textos, 2015), La ciencia de las despedidas (Pre-Textos, 2018; translated by Robin Myers as The Science of Departures, Kenning Editions, 2021), Nuevas cartas náuticas (Pre-Textos, 2022), Crania (Letra Muerta, 2023; translated by Robin Myers), and Las fuerzas débiles (Vaso Roto, 2024, cowritten by Elisa Díaz Castelo), as well as the essay collections Clarice Lispector: el lugar de la poesía (Ril Editores, 2019), Palabras sin dueño: Variaciones sobre la traducción literaria (UNAM, 2019), Isolario (Pre-Textos, 2023; translated by Robin Myers as Islarium, Peepal Tree Press, 2024), and Retrato del traductor con cabeza de perro (Libros de la resistencia, 2023). His poetry has appeared in several anthologies and he has translated the work of many renowned poets and writers, completing translation residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada) and Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago). He holds a doctorate from New York University.

  • Juan Camilo Rincón

Juan Camilo Rincón is a writer, journalist, and cultural researcher focusing on Hispano-American literature. He earned his Master’s in Literary Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and is a former grantee of FONCA (Mexico). He is the author of Ser colombiano es un acto de fe: Historias de Jorge Luis Borges y Colombia, Viaje al corazón de Cortázar, Nuestra memoria es para siempre, and Colombia y México: entre la sangre y la palabra. He has written on cultural topics for outlets in Latin America and Spain, and has been a guest author at international book fairs in Bogotá, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Guayaquil, Havana, and Pachuca.

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