''El Malpensante'' ( es, The Misthinker) is a Colombian

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and lett ...

of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, short stories, graphic art and poetry founded in 1996. Its founders were Andrés Hoyos Restrepo and Mario Jursich Durán. The name of the magazine was extracted from a book of aphorisms written by

Gesualdo Bufalino Gesualdo Bufalino (; Comiso, Italy, 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer. Biography Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown, for most of his life ...

. Among the collaborators of the magazine it can be named authors such as

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

, Germán Espinosa, Leila Guerriero, Juan Gabriel Vázquez,

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, ...

Juan Villoro Juan Villoro (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among ...

Samanta Schweblin Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentine Spanish-language author currently living in Berlin. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ...

and many others.

History and profile

Since its foundation in 1996, ''El Malpensante'' has become one of the main cultural references of Colombia in topics such as literature, cinema, music, art, architecture, design and politics. The wide variety of paradoxical readings contained in its pages have redefined for a generation of readers what it means to "be malpensante": a brand of literary pleasure, a window to access peculiar and profound views of culture, an innovative publishing firm, a guarantee of quality and credibility. For several years, the publishing house of the magazine carried out the "Festival Malpensante", which consisted on a series of yearly of encounters and cultural activities realized in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

. However, the festival came to an end in 2011. Since 2003, the magazine collaborates with the

Universidad Externado de Colombia The Universidad Externado de Colombia (Externado University of Colombia) is a private university in Bogotá, Colombia. It has produced graduates including lawyers, academics, judges, financiers, journalists, as well as senior government officials a ...

in order to distribute to its subscribers the little volumes of the collection ''Un libro por centavos,'' destined to the divulgation of the lyrical work of several authors. Since 2020, ''El Malpensante'' releases a special yearly issue under title ''"La Malpensante Moda"''. This series is the product of an alliance between Fundación Malpensante an
Silla Verde
and it arises from the desire of exploring the meeting grounds between art and fashion. ''La Malpensante Moda'' counts o
Rocio Arias Hofman
as invited editor for every one of its issues. The latest deliveries of ''"La Malpensante Moda"'' have counted with the participation of Female artists and writers such as Margo Glantz
Sorayda PegueroVanessa Rosales
and Goyo. Since 2017, the director of the magazine is Andrés Hoyos. The current editor of ''El Malpensante'' is Santiago Erazo, while its art director is Federico Fonseca; both began their respective labours in 2021.

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