Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973) is a Colombian writer, best known for his novel The Sound of Things Falling, originally published in 2011. 2Biography Juan Gabriel Vasquez studied Law in his native city, at the University of Rosario in Bogotá, and after graduating left for France, where he lived in París from 1996 to 1999. There, at the Sorbonne, he received a doctorate in Latin American Literature. Later he moved to a small town in the Ardennes in Belgium. After living there for a year, he moved to Barcelona, where he resided until 2012. Today he lives in Bogotá. Vásquez is the author of four "official" novels — The Informants (Los informantes), The Secret History of Costaguana (Historia secreta de Costaguana), The Sound of Things Falling (El ruido de las cosas al caer) and Reputations (Las Reputaciones) all of which have been translated by Anne McLean. He wrote two earlier novels in his early twenties which he prefers to ignore - Persona and Alina suplicante. "I would like to leave this part of my past forgotten. I have this right," he has sai