Andrés Felipe Solano

Andrés Felipe Solano (born 9 February 1977) is a Colombian novelist who published ''Sálvame, Joe Louis (2010)''; ''Los hermanos Cuervo (2012)'' and ''Salario Mínimo-Vivir con nada (2016)'', a long-form essay about his experience as a factory worker living on the minimum wage for six months in Medellín, Colombia, where he rented a room in a notoriously violent neighborhood. A previous version of this piece was chosen as the finalist for the prize awarded by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, chaired by Gabriel García Márquez in 2008.
He also published ''Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja'', a non-fiction book about his life in South Korea, which received the 2016 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize.
His third novel, ''Cementerios de neón (2017)'' is partly based in a Colombian veteran from the Korean war.
His work has appeared in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Words Without Borders'' and ''World Literature Today''.
He was featured in Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists.
He has served as writer in residence in Yaddo, Ledig House, Toji Cultural Center, Yoeonhui Arts Space and Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Life

He lived in Medellín. He teaches at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

His work appeared in the ''Catapult'', ''New York Times Magazine'', ''Words Without Borders'', ''Anew'', and ''Granta''.

Works

* ''Sálvame, Joe Louis'', Alfaguara, 2007, (Save Me, Joe Louis)
* (The Cuervo Brothers).
* ''Corea: apuntes desde la cueda floja'', 2015
* ''Salario mínimo, vivir con nada'', 2015
* ''Cementerios de neón'', 2017

References

External links

*http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/andres-felipe-solano

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1977 births
Living people
21st-century Colombian novelists
Colombian male novelists
People from Medellín
Place of birth missing (living people)