The Secret History of Costaguana

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the critically acclaimed, award-winning Colombian author of The Informers. He has translated works by E. M. Forster, Victor Hugo, and John Dos Passos, among others, into Spanish. His fiction has been translated into fourteen languages.

Educated in Colombia, and in Paris at the Sorbonne, he now teaches in Barcelona, where he lives with his wife and twin daughters.