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Octavio Escobar Giraldo

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Octavio Escobar Giraldo is a Colombian physician and writer. He won the International Short Novel Award Ciudad de Barbastro XLV (2014) and the National Award for Best Novel from the (Colombian) Ministry of Culture (2016) for Después y antes de Dios. His narrative style is substantially influenced by television, music, cinema because, as he himself states, he went more to the movies than to class. He is the Director of the Manizales Book Fair, which he founded in 2009. He is a professor at the graduate school of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Caldas, located in the city where he was born, Manizales, Colombia. His trio of noir novels take on difficult social themes pertaining to the violence, the paramilitaries, and the false positives scandal, the over six thousand young people who were kidnapped and murdered by the Colombian military to meet quotas in the war against the guerrila forces in the Colombian coffee growing axis, the mountainous region where the author was born and has spent his life.

Books

Jergario latinoamericano ilustrado
Jergario latinoamericano ilustrado
Carlos Nine, Concepción Company Company, Juan Cárdenas, Mempo Giardinelli, Armenia Leticia Hernández Castañeda, Pilar Quintana, Sonia Lazo, Rodrigo Rosa, Matías Romero, Axel Axel, Pedro Luis Barcia, Octavio Escobar Giraldo, Rodrigo Quesada Monge, Adrián González, Adriana Roque Romero, Juan López, Leonardo Cabrera, Manuel Carballa, Alejandro Solano, Gerardo García Muñoz, Diego Golombek, Luis Quevedo, Pierre Thomas Claudet, Astrid Velasco, Roberto Palacio, Sayri Karp, Nancy Rozo, Miguel Ángel Quesada, Andreina Adelstein, Carlos Balmacera, Claudio Volpintestapara, Edna Pozzi, Ernesto R. B. Polotto, Federico Rodríguez, Francisco Bitar, Ginés González García, Hernando María Linari, Jorge Saab, Édgar Morisoli, Julio César Vega, Laura Villavicencio, Lizzet Vejling, Rafael Urretabizkaya, Sonia Krumm, Ángela Gancedo, Diego Ariel Herrera, Mariana Liceaga, Julián Mónaco, Diego Rosemberg, María Teresa D ́Meza, Astomiro Romais, Jairnilson Paim, Luis Augusto Fischer, Marcelo Luciano Di Renzo, Marcus Mota, Nair María di Oliveira, Oswaldo Truzzi, Raquel Correia de Oliveira, Ruy Do Carmo Póvoas, Daniel Noemí, David Ricciulli, Diego Fernando Pérez Medina, Elsa Cristina Robayo Cruz, Esteban Giraldo González, Juan González Reyes, Julián Castañeda, Pilar Montoya Chacón, Libia Rosa Narváez Barbosa, Lucía Bustamante Vélez, Luis Miguel Vargas Valencia, Lorena Ruiz Serna, María Bernarda Espejo Olaya, Nancy Liliana Rodríguez Velásquez, Rafael Rubio Pérez, Vania Flórez Ramos, Jorge E. Rojas, Jorge Iván Cardona Soto, Luz Stella Castañeda Naranjo, Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro, Ileana Acuña Mendoza, Jenny Margoth Zelaya Matamoros, Ada Aurora Sánchez Peña, Alma Cázarez Ruiz, Ana Luisa Topete Ceballos, Carmina Nahuatlato Frías, Cecilia Kühne, César Ángel Aguilar Asiain, Dolores Latapí Ortega, Édgar García Valencia, Fernando Fabio Sánchez, José Manuel González Freire, Juan Francisco Hernández Gallegos, José Luis Olazo García, Lorena Sánchez Adaya, Lydia Elizade Valdés, Olga Riebeling Amozorrutia, Sue Meneses Eternod, Raúl Eduardo González, Verónica Mendoza, Zarina Estrada Ferández, Eduviges Vergara Moreno, Marlene Guzmán, Rosa Irene Patterson, Aldo Figueroa Ocampo, Pedro Félix Novoa Castillo, Rafael Felices Taboada, Carmen Felícitas Pérez Valerio, Yazz Casillas, Josel Josel, Claudia Reyes Toledo, Andrés Casciani, Carina Amarillo, Eduardo Macías, Ezequiel Alejandro Padilla, Florencia Lima Gentili, Gabriel Fernández, Huadi Huadi, Juan Lázaro Rearte, Lionel Zanarini, Lucrecia Soledad Rodríguez, Manuel Gasparri, Marcelo Chelo Candia, Mariana Nemitz, Mauro B. Good, Omar Hirsig, Osvaldo Berenguer, Raquel Pumilla, Virginia Martí, Maritza Piña, Claudia Barbosa Dias, Julián Dall'Agnol, Marina Cotrim, Sanquelio de Lima Santos, Alberto Casas Ochoa, Dani Mar Díaz, Ange Interestelar, Iván Camilo Barrios Soto, Javier Pinto Romero, Jhonatan García, José Mario Alzate Camacho, José Rodrigo Orozco, Katz Avellaneda, Luis Osorio Tejada, Miguel Gerardo Ramírez, Olga Cuellar Serrano, Wilson Cochero Ramos, Yimmy Ortíz, Alfonso Cabrera Macedo, Carlos Mal, Amable Desconocida, Oldemar Oldemar, Gabo Cárabes, Gustavo Díaz Montañez, Ismael Tavera, Ismael Villafranco Tinoco, El Jay Jay, J. Cerón R., Juan Carlos Capella Valdés, Javier Henriquez, Juan Cházaro García, Lane Cope, Leonel Sagahón Campero, Tenedor Tenedor, María Magaña, Mario Estévez Lázao, Patricia Ayala García, Godoy Godoy, Rodrigo Ponce, Satya Satya, Qucho Qucho, Osvaldo Osvaldo, Sergio Pastor Segura
Cuentos de Asia, Europa & América
Cuentos de Asia, Europa & América
Ray Bradbury, John le Carré, Amos Oz, Angélica Gorodischer, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Lutz Seiler, David L. Ulin, A. B. Yehoshua, Tessa Hadley, Alessandro Baricco, Susan Straight, Aimee Bender, Carmen Boullosa, Peter Stamm, Louise Welsh, Antonio Tabucchi, Philip Hoare, Ned Beauman, Dino Buzzati, César Aira, Etgar Keret, Nora Bossong, Dacia Maraini, Liam O'Flaherty, Aharon Appelfeld, Lídia Jorge, David Machado, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Antonio Skármeta, Alejandra Costamagna, Baltasar Porcel, Juan Manuel Roca, Ingo Schulze, Monika Maron, Alberto Fuguet, Gila Almagor, Ulrich Peltzer, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Ana María Shua, Devibharathi, Ricardo Silva Romero, Alonso Cueto, Fernando Ampuero, Juan Manuel de Prada, Hélia Correia, Diamela Eltit, Claudia Apablaza, Enrique Serna, Alberto Laiseca, Hugo Chaparro Valderrama, Felipe Benítez Reyes, Soledad Puértolas, Mariella Mehr, Edgardo Rivera Martínez, Pyun Hye-Young, Carmen Ollé, Luis Panini, Amar Mitra, Ignacio Padilla, Fabio Morábito, Valeria Correa Fiz, José María Merino, Octavio Escobar Giraldo, David Miklos, A. M. Pires Cabral, Miguel Bayón, Patricia Reis, Orly Castel-Bloom, Autar Krishen Rahbar, Yoon Sung-Hee, Kim Keun, Paul Zachari, Michael Jaime Becerra, Ann Heon Mi, John Mcgahern, Alberto Garlini, Shukti Roy, J. A. González Sainz, José Luis Peixoto, Fernanda García Loa, Juan Ramírez Biedermann, Hipólito G. Navarro, Rinny Gremaud, Sascha Reh, Nicolás González Marzzucco, Ben Ehrenreich,, José Manuel Torres Funes, Chandrakanta Mura Singh, Gonzalo Calcedo Juanes, Carola Aikin, Dulce María Cardoso, Leo Felipe Campos, José Gai, Joya Mitra, Paola Lagazzi, Juan Pedro Aparicio, Amrita Nilanjana, Isabel Río Novo, Pilar Salamanca, Roberto Carlos Pérez