Evelio Rosero [SEP] country of citizenship
Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero Diago was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on 20 March 1958. He is a Colombian writer and journalist, who won in 2006 the "Tusquets Prize".
Evelio Rosero studied primary school in Colombia's southern city of Pasto, and high school in Bogotá, where he later attended Universidad Externado de Colombia obtaining a degree in Journalism. When he was 21, he won Colombia's "Premio Nacional de Cuento del Quindío" 1979 (National Short Story Award of Quindío), for his piece
translation of "Soldiers of Salamis" and again in 2009 for "The Armies" by Evelio Rosero.
In 2014, her translation of Juan Gabriel Vásquez's "The Sound of Things Falling" was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She currently lives in Canada.
Awards and nominations.
- 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for "Soldiers of Salamis" by Javier Cercas
- 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for "The Armies" by Evelio Rosero
- 2009 shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for