Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez holds a four-night residency at  A Room for London, the art installation located on the roof of Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Vásquez, the first of twelve writers invited throughout 2012, will create a 15-minute podcast on the project's website under the banner "A London Address". All the writers' contributions will later be collected in a publication.

A ROOM FOR LONDON is an architectural commission by Artist Fiona Banner and David Kohn Architects which takes inspiration from the riverboat the Roi Des Belges, on which Joseph Conrad sailed to the Congo, a journey which was later echoed in his novella the Heart of Darkness.

 

 

 

 

 

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne and now lives in Barcelona.

Vásquez was the winner of the Premio Alfaguara 2011 for 'El ruido de las cosas al caer and

The Secret History of Costaguana, published by Bloomsbury in June 2010 (paperback 2011) is a superb, joyful, thoughtful and rumbustious novel that will establish Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s reputation as one of the leading novelists of his generation.

Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean and published by Bloomsbury in May 2008 (paperback 2009), The Informers is Vásquez's first novel to be translated into English.

For more information visit: A Room for London