The Armies

About the Author and the Translator

EVELIO ROSERO was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1958. He was awarded Colombia’s National Literature Prize by the Ministry of Culture in 2006 for his body of work, which includes several novels, short story collections, and books for young readers and children. The Armies, Rosero’s first novel to be translated into English, won the Tusquets International Prize and the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

ANNE McLEAN has translated books by Julio Cortázar, Carmen Martín Gaite, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, and Ignacio Martínez de Pisón. Her translation of Javier Cercas’s Soldiers of Salamis won the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle-Inclán.

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