Songs for the Flames: Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Gregory McCormick

Songs for the Flames: Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Gregory McCormick

9:00pm

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Bestselling Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez previously won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner with The Sound of Things Falling, and was a Man Booker International finalist with The Shape of the Ruins. He now offers up nine morally complex short stories about men and women touched by violence in his new collection, Songs for the Flames (translated to English by Anne McLean). Don’t miss your chance to hear from the author on these electric, vibrant stories telling how those with dangerous histories either emerge from the flames of trauma purified and reborn, or burned and destroyed.

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Bestselling Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez previously won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner with The Sound of Things Falling, and was a Man Booker International finalist with The Shape of the Ruins. He now offers up nine morally complex short stories about men and women touched by violence in his new collection, Songs for the Flames (translated to English by Anne McLean). Don’t miss your chance to hear from the author on these electric, vibrant stories telling how those with dangerous histories either emerge from the flames of trauma purified and reborn, or burned and destroyed.

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez's previous books include the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller The Sound of Things Falling, and Man Booker International Finalist The Shape of the Ruins, as well as the award-winning Reputations, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collection Lovers on All Saints' Day. His books have been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. After sixteen years in Europe, he now lives in Bogotá.

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Gregory McCormick is the Manager of Cultural and Literary Programming at Toronto Public Library, the largest urban library system in the world. After finishing a master’s degree in literature from Université de Montréal, he served for six years as Director of Programming for Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. Originally from the USA, he has lived in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Grenoble and Buenos Aires. He divides his time between Toronto and Montreal.

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