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April 07 / 2020
ReD member Gwen Burnyeat interviewed award-winning Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez for Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
In this interview, they discussed the Colombian peace process, the challenges of speaking truth in a “post-truth” era, fiction, and much more.
Read the complete interview here.
“I try to contribute in a more practical way to the debate, I try to convince people (…) I’m taking them by the hand and I’m saying, let’s get into this mess together and try to understand it. It’s a consolation that literature can offer.”
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
*Image taken from Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
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