It’s hard to talk about Colombian literature, or even Colombia itself, without mentioning its Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez! An entire body of work devoted to sublimating literary art to the point of embodying a new literary genre, invented for him, mirroring a country and its madness: magic realism.
But Colombian literature is not just Gabriel Garcia Marquez! It’s also contemporary authors, men and women, writers who talk about Colombia (or not), its customs and its society, to delight the readers that we are.
10 Colombian books to read
Colombian literature
With this list of 10 Colombian books to read, we invite you on a journey through the different faces of Colombia. Discover Colombian authors with different styles, led of course by the great Gabo, but not only! Colombian literature is rich and waiting to be read and discovered!