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Victoria Kellaway

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Victoria is a writer, translator and intercultural communications lecturer based in Bogotá, Colombia.

She is author of two editions of the bestselling Colombia a comedy of errors and editor of the essay collections Was Gabo an Irishman? (Tales from Gabriel García Márquez's Colombia) and Alone Together (Tales of Sisterhood and Solitude in Latin America)

Victoria's short fiction centres on Colombia and England, and has been published in France, India and the United States. She chronicles life at www.bananaskinflipflops.com and tweets about Colombia @vkellawaywrites. ...more

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Colombia a comedy of errors

A little light, for me, at the end of the 2020 tunnel.

I started writing the new edition of Colombia a comedy of errors in 2017, but it is only this year that has given me the space, clarity and humility to try and think about how we might capture the many faces of this unique country in just one book.

This is the result.

Colombia a comedy of errors is now fully revised and expanded with new chap

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Average rating: 4.07 · 174 ratings · 35 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Colombia a Comedy of Errors by Victoria Kellaway (Goodreads Author), Sergio J. Lievano (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	Was Gabo an Irishman? by Caroline Doherty de Novoa (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Victoria Kellaway (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard McColl (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Voices of Bogotá: A short story collection by Caroline Doherty de Novoa (Goodreads Author), Peter Dale, Ana Carolina Pereira 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings	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
	Alone Together: Tales of Sisterhood and Solitude in Latin America by Karen Attman (Author, Editor), Victoria Kellaway (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Newbery (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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

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