(Barrancabermeja, Colombia, 1963) is a writer and professor of literature at the University of Antioquia. Winner of the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (2015) and the José María Arguedas Narrative Prize from Casa de las Américas (2017) for his Tríptico de la infamia (. He received the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize (2016) for his entire body of work. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) for his literary and academic work (2023). He is a member of the Colombian Academy of Language and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Among his most notable books, in addition to Triptych of Infamy (2014), are: the novels Far from Rome (2008), The Defeated (2012), The Shadow of Orion (2021) and Marcus Aurelius and the Limits of the Empire (2024). He has been a visiting professor at different universities in Europe and Latin America.