Juan Esteban Constaín is a Colombian writer. He was born in 1979 in

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. He published his first book in 2004, a short story collection titled ''Los Mártires''. His first novel followed three years later, titled ''El naufragio del Imperio''. His second novel ''¡Calcio!'', dealing with the probable origins of football, won the Espartaco prize. His 2014 book ''El hombre que no fue Jueves'' (''The Man Who Wasn't Thursday'') was a homage to G.K. Chesterton's classic novel ''

The Man Who Was Thursday ''The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'' is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller. Plot summary Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the ...

''. It became a domestic bestseller and won the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize. He has also published a book on

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titled ''Gabo contesta'' (2015).Profile
/ref> Constain lives and works in

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, where he teaches international relations at the

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. He is also a translator and newspaper columnist. In 2017, he was named as one of the

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, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America.

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