No Place for Heroes

a note about the author

Laura Restrepo is the bestselling author of several prizewinning novels published in more than twenty languages, including Leopard in the Sun, which won the Arzobispo Juan San Clemente Prize; The Angel of Galilea, which won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in Mexico and the Prix France Culture in France; and Delirium, for which she was awarded the 2004 Alfaguara Prize, with a jury headed by Nobel laureate José Saramago, and the 2006 Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007, Restrepo currently divides her time between Bogotá and Mexico City.