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Words to the Wind: Bogotá celebrates 20 years of Libro al Viento

By The City Paper Staff - December 2, 2024

As Bogotá celebrates its 486th anniversary, the city’s iconic Libro al Viento program is marking two decades of bringing literature to all corners of the Colombian capital. Launched in 2004 by the District Institute of the Arts (Idartes), this reading initiative has distributed nearly 5.7 million books ensuring free access to stories and knowledge.

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Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) hosts Brazil as Guest Nation

By Richard Emblin - April 13, 2024

Brazil will be honored as Guest Nation at Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo), showcasing its literary greatness and fostering a cultural exchange on topics such as climate change, biodiversity and the Amazon. FILBo opens April 17 at Corferias and runs until May 2.

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Colombia’s García Márquez returns posthumously with “Until August”

By Richard Emblin - March 19, 2024

A decade after his death in Mexico City at age 77, Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novel ‘Until August’ sparks debate as it hits shelves worldwide. The Colombian release has been welcomed by readers of the Nobel Laureate.

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Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) hosts Mexico as Guest Nation

By The City Paper Staff - April 14, 2023

Edition 35 of FILBo will also pay tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian Nobel Laureate who lived in Mexico until his death in 2014. García Márquez is the most translated Latin American author, and second in the Spanish language to Cervantes.

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Colombia heads to Seoul as Guest Nation at Book Fair

By The City Paper Staff - April 27, 2022

Korea has reciprocated the invitation as Guest Nation at Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) by hosting Colombia with its own pavilion in Seoul as part of its international book fair.

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FILBo is back as Colombia’s top literary event

By Paulina Diazgranados - April 18, 2022

Three years after the last International Book Fair of Bogotá was held at Corferias, the literary world reunites in Colombian capital for edition 34.

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BLAA’s Literature Today series looks to Africa and its acclaimed writers

By Richard Emblin - November 29, 2021

Seven award-winning African novelists join BLAA’s contemporary literature series with interviews hosted by Gilbert Shang Ndi.

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Words that have stayed with me (A mini-Autobiography by Jimmy Weiskopf))

By Jimmy Weiskopf - October 5, 2020

Words define how we interpret our quotidian realities from a childhood in New York to Amazonian river as Jimmy Weiskopf recalls.

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Forging bonds between authors, books and readers with BLAA’s literature series

By María Claudia Peña - September 6, 2020

Director Ana Roda of the Luis Ángel Arango Library (BLAA) talks about the importance of reading as a way of understanding the uncertain times in which we live.

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Writings from uncertainty: BLAA launches its Literature Today series

By María Claudia Peña - September 1, 2020

What are the common contributions of a diverse generation of writers that make up the Latin American scene is one of the questions Literature Today from BLAA intends to answer.

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Hay Festival streams literary world for its 2020 edition

By Laura Field - May 27, 2020

Live session with authors, essayists and celebrities from the film world join the first Hay Digital from the festival’s seat Hay-on-Wye. The event runs until May 31.

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A personal and virtual tribute of sociologist Alfredo Molano by BanRep

By Richard Emblin - April 30, 2020

Like many cultural events taking place virtually with the lockdown on Sunday, May 3, Banco de la República will tribute the life and works of sociologist Alfredo Molano.

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Quarantine reading: Two timid Tibetan monks go West (Part 1)

By Jimmy Weiskopf - April 7, 2020

Author Jimmy Weiskopf breaks the solitude of quarantine with a short story of two timid Buddhist monks heading to a boot camp of meditation in New Hampshire.

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Shem The Penman Resurgent

By Jimmy Weiskopf - April 6, 2020

Essayist and chronciler of Bogotá streets Jimmy Weiskopf resurges as Shem The Penman with his unique take on historical lore and folklore.

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Shem, the penman: Musings on headlines and historical truths

By Jimmy Weiskopf - April 5, 2020

The streets of Bogotá are dotted with historical refrains, plenty of absurdity and graffitied truths. Shem, a minor penman, offers some wit and droll for minds in lockdown.

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Vásquez on Man Booker nomination: “Memory in literature is a moral act”

By Charlotte Harrison - June 25, 2019

In his 2015 novel The Shape of the Ruins, Juan Gabriel Va?squez delves into the conspiracy theories embedded in Colombia’s past and haunting its present.

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