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Pilar Quintana
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian author. Her novel, The Bitch, won a PEN Translates award and the prestigious Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize and was selected for several best books of 2017 lists. It was also chosen as one of the most valuable objects to preserve for future generations in a marble time capsule in Bogotá. Abyss, her latest novel, was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela, a prestigious Spanish language award.
Books by Pilar Quintana
The Bitch
by Pilar Quintana
***Winner 2017 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana***
The Bitch by Pilar Quintana is a brilliant, short novel, set on Colombia's Pacific coast.
Abyss
by Pilar Quintana
***Winner 2021 Premio Alfaguara de Novela***
Abyss is the latest book by Colombian novelist Pilar Quintana, author of The Bitch. It's set in the city of Cali, and the story is told through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl. It's a compelling read, about a child's observations of her depressed mother, who reads celebrity magazines and is fixated on women who committed suicide.
Interviews with Pilar Quintana
The Best Colombian Novels, recommended by Pilar Quintana
Colombian novels shot to international prominence after the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which told the story of his small, Colombian hometown by mixing in fantastical elements. The novel spoke to readers around the globe and García Márquez would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here, contemporary Colombian novelist Pilar Quintana introduces us to the works of this ‘genius’ as well as some of the other great novels of Colombian literature.
