Conversation with Colombian Writer Juan Cárdenas

The Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies welcomes Colombian author Juan Cárdenas on Monday, November 5th at 2:00pm. This talk will be held in the Pavilion of the Kislak Center at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Juan Cárdenas (1978) is a Colombian writer and translator, author of the novels El diablo de las provincias (Periférica, 2018), Zumbido (451 Editores, 2010/ Periférica, 2017), Ornamento (Periférica, 2015) and Los estratos (Periférica, 2013). He is also the author of the short story collections Carreras delictivas (451 Editores, 2008) and Volver a comer del árbol de la ciencia (Tusquets, 2018). In 2017, he was named by the Hay Festival in Bogotá as one of the 39 best Latin American writers under the age of 39. Cárdenas currently works at the Masters Program in Creative Writing at the Caro Cuervo Institute in Bogotá. His translations to Spanish include the works of authors as prominent as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe and J. M. Machado de Assis.