Juan Cárdenas

Juan Cárdenas is a Colombian art critic, curator, and translator, and author of the novels Zumbido, Los estratos, Ornamento, Tú y yo, una novelita rusa, and El diablo de las provincias. He has translated the works of such writers as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Gordon Lish, David Ohle, J. M. Machado de Assis, and Eça de Queirós. In 2014 his novel Los estratos received the Otras Voces Otros Ámbitos Prize. In May 2017 he was named one of the thirty-nine best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine by the Hay Festival in Bogotá. 

Event: Translating the Surreal: A Conversation with Juan Cárdenas and Lizzie Davis