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Santiago Gamboa

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Born

in Bogota, Colombia

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Travel

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December 2011

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Born at Bogotá, he studied literature at the Javerian University of Bogotá. He travelled to Spain where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He then moved to Paris, where he studied Cuban Literature at the Sorbonne.

He made his debut as a novelist with Páginas de vuelta (1995), a work which established him as one of the most innovative voices of the new Colombian narrative; later he wrote Perder es cuestión de método (1997), which was internationally acclaimed, and has been translated into 17 lenguages, and about which a film is now being made, and Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban (2000), a novel which has added to his international prestige. He is the author of the travel b ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 8,903 ratings · 1,143 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	El síndrome de Ulises 4.21 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa (Goodreads Author), Howard Curtis (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colombian Psycho 4.23 avg rating — 1,073 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Will Be Long by Santiago Gamboa (Goodreads Author), Andrea Rosenberg (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 1,160 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perder es cuestión de método 3.83 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 1997 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Necrópolis 3.85 avg rating — 567 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa (Goodreads Author), Howard Curtis (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los impostores 3.75 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban 4.21 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una casa en Bogotá 3.66 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“—¿Culta? Perdone que le diga, Víctor, pero es la primera persona que conozco que no ha sido capaz de leerse completo el diario de Ana Frank.”
― Santiago Gamboa, Perder es cuestión de método

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“—El amor es como una borrachera. Cuando uno tiene la botella al lado se siente feliz. Pero luego se acaba, uno se duerme y al otro día se despierta con dolor. Después uno promete no volver a tomar... ¿Todavía la quiere?”
― Santiago Gamboa, Perder es cuestión de método

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“—Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez
en cuando, a ver qué aprendo.
—Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.”
― Santiago Gamboa, Perder es cuestión de método

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