Event 9
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert
On the trail of Feliza Bursztyn
Museo de Arte Religioso
The award-winning Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) is a fiction writer, essayist and author of eighteen books; the translator of Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster, his own work has been translated into thirty languages. Here he presents his most recent book, Los nombres de Feliza, in which the author reconstructs the life of Feliza Bursztyn, a Colombian sculptor, born in Bogota into a Jewish family and who died in Paris in 1982. The rise of the Nazi Party meant her parents had to leave Europe, while violence in Colombia sent her into exile. A friend of García Márquez, Saturnino Ramírez and Luis Caballero, she challenged the social expectations that her time sought to impose on her as a woman, artist and Jew. Vásquez talks about his new work, a rigorous investigation crafted into a novel, with a figure who is unique in Colombian culture, Sara Jaramillo Klinkert.
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