William Ospina

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• Guayacanal

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  Narrativa Colombiana 2020 · Finalist

  Guayacanal

  William Ospina · 65 when first published

  Novel · Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Feeling death draw closer, a writer named William and his friend Mario plan a trip back to the mountain country of his childhood in central Colombia, where his great-grandparents settled on a farm after crossing over from Antioquia.

• El año del verano que nunca llegó

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  Narrativa Colombiana 2016 · Finalist

  El año del verano que nunca llegó

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Year of the Summer That Never Came”

  William Ospina · 61 when first published

  Novel · 295 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:A writer becomes obsessed with 1816, the year without a summer after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, when Byron's guests at a villa on Lake Geneva gave birth to Frankenstein and the vampire.