Abad Faciolince, Héctor Joaquín,

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t.p. (Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince) t.p. (Héctor Abad Faciolince) flap of front cover (b. 1958 in Medellín, Colombia; journalist, author of Malos pensamientos, 1991) t.p. (Héctor Abad) p. 4 of cover (Héctor Abad Faciolince) p. 16 (b. 1948, Medellín; translator, journalist, novelist; author of Malos pensamientos) ECIP t.p. (Héctor Abad) data view (one of Colombia's leading writers. Born in 1958, he grew up in Medellín, where he studied medicine, philosophy and journalism. In 1987, his father was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries, an event he reflected on 20 years later in Oblivion: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012), which earned widespread critical acclaim as well as the WOLA-Duke Book Award. After being expelled from university for writing a defamatory text against the Pope, he moved to Italy before returning to his homeland in 1987; has worked as a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Verona and as a translator of Italian literature. His translations from the Italian include works by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Umberto Eco; writes a weekly column for Colombia's national newspaper El Espectador; The Farm won the 2015 Cálamo Prize in Spain and was shortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize)