A fascinating discussion about the genre of travel writing with two great journalists and non-fiction authors: the US Jon Lee Anderson, aauthor of books such as Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Fall of Baghdad and Los años de la espiral: Crónicas de América Latina; and Óscar Martínez (El Salvador), Head Writer at El Faro and author of Los migrantes que no importan, El niño de Hollywood and the recent Los muertos y el periodista. In conversation with the writer Teresita Goyeneche.
In 2014, the Gabo Foundation and the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, as part of an alliance which was to last over a decade, decided to organize, in homage to the English writer, the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Grant, an award supported by the Michael Jacobs Foundation.