The award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia), hardly needs an introduction. He bibliography contains 17 books including novels, short stories, essays and poetry published in 30 languages, and he is one of his country’s most prolific and renowned writers. In his most recent book, La traducción del mundo, Vásquez presents the talks he gave at Oxford University in 2022, when he was invited to give the prestigious Weidenfeld Lectures, a series that has previously featured speakers such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Umberto Eco and Javier Cercas. With his habitual erudition, Vásquez gives his vision of literature, particularly fiction, as the highest tool we have for investigating the vastness and essence of human experience. He will talk to Olga de Obaldía about this book and his previous one, Volver la vista atrás.