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Gilmer Mesa and Ricardo Silva in conversation with Ana Bejarano

Cartagena 2024, Saturday 27 January 2024

Two writers represent the complexity of the Colombian reality in their work. Ricardo Silva, one of the country’s most read authors, presents El libro del duelo, which takes the true story of Raúl Carvajal, a father who spent years seeking justice in the case of his son, an army corporal who was killed for refusing to participate in illegal executions. Gilmer Mesa, author of La cuadra and Las travesías, presents Aranjuez, a work set in the neighbourhood of the same name in Medellin, the site of some of the most difficult moments in the city’s recent history. In conversation with Ana Bejarano.