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Novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Santiago Gamboa was born in Colombia in 1965. His American debut, published by Europa in 2012, was the novel Necropolis, winner of the Otra Orilla Literary Prize. He is also the author of Night Prayers (Europa Editions, 2016) and Return to the Dark Valley (Europa, 2017). Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. Her translations include Tomas Gonzalez's The Storm (Archipelago Books 2018), Ines Pedrosa's In Your Hands (AmazonCrossing 2018), Aura Xilonen's The Gringo Champion (Europa Editions 2017), and Juan Gomez Barcena's The Sky Over Lima (Houghton Mifflin 2016). Her translation of Marcelo D'Salete's graphic novel Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom (Fantagraphics 2017) won an Eisner Award in July 2018.
Gamboa's talent at cultivating intrigue and the extravagant energy of his stories make him compulsive reading. --Times Literary Supplement Each novel by Santiago Gamboa is at the forefront of the best Latin American novels. Gamboa dismantles the legacy of Chandler and Hammett, adapting it to the craggy environs of Colombia, and adds to it a tireless sense of ethics. His novels revitalize a genre that we thought could do no more. --Martin Solares, author of The Black Minutes For Return to the Dark Valley Fans of Roberto Bolano will feel right at home in this globetrotting tale of misfit poets and ultraviolent drug lords . . . A page turner --Miami Rail Action-packed plotting propels this rabidly contemporary novel forward, as it examines the movement of people across the shifting geopolitical landscape, the impossibility of returning and the potential redemptive power of poetry. --The New York Times Book Review Gamboa possesses considerable talent at creating energetic scenes that spiral off in intriguing directions. --San Francisco Chronicle For Night Prayers Brilliantly translated, Night Prayers is an incredible reading experience with a pounding heart and wisdom to boot. --Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore Gamboa's work calls to mind Roberto Bolano in its masterful suspense, complex literary references, and frank depiction of violence, sex, and drugs. --Publisher's Weekly
