Born 1975 · Colombia
Narrativa Colombiana 2019 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“How to Lose Everything”
Ricardo Silva Romero · 43 when first published
Novel · 607 pages · Love, Satire
AI-generated summary:In 2016 an elderly Bogotá philosophy professor, new to Facebook, shares an article claiming that mothers are more intelligent, and the storm it sets off starts a relay of stories about couples on the brink.
Narrativa Colombiana 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Official History of Love”
Ricardo Silva Romero · 41 when first published
Novel · 540 pages · Family, Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:A writer tells his family's story backwards, from a night in 1989 when they barely escaped death to the crime, scandal and duel of earlier decades, tracing his parents' and grandparents' lives through Colombia's turbulent history.
Narrativa Colombiana 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Book of Envy”
Ricardo Silva Romero · 39 when first published
Novel · 525 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:Bogotá, 31 August 1896: the poet José Asunción Silva has been dead for three months, and a well-known street eccentric sets out to convince the indifferent city that it was murder, not suicide, and that he saw it.