Silvana Paternostro in conversation with Amalia Aguilar

Silvana Paternostro presents her book Solitude and company. The life of Gabriel García Márquez told with the help of his friends, admirers, adversaries, drunks, cronies, family members, cock suckers and a few good people. The Colombian-Panamanian journalist and writer was born in Barranquilla and collaborates with The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair and The Financial Times, among other media, with chronicles and reports on her topics of interest: women, culture, creativity and the relationships between art and civil society. Her first book was In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture, and her second book, My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind, was published in 2007.