Colonel Lágrimas His first novel, Colonel Lágrimas, published in Spain and Latin America by Anagrama[9] and in English by Restless Books,[10] received critical acclaim and was praised by The Guardian as a “dazzling debut” and by Valerie Miles, in The New York Times Book Review as a “gorgeous opera prima”[11][12][13] Loosely based on the life story of the eccentric mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, it tells the story of a man attempting to compose a total encyclopaedia.

Natural History His second novel was published in Spain and Latin America by Anagrama as Museo animal, and in English (translated by Megan McDowell) by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

It was described by the Spanish Newspaper El Mundo as “a brilliant inquiry in the archive of memory.” [16] La Lucidez del Miope He is also the author of a book of essays, where he writes about the works of writers that have inspired him like Ricardo Piglia, W.G.

[17] • Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echevarría for La Lucidez del Miope • Granta Magazine’s Best Spanish-Language Novelists, 2021 • Hay Festival’s Bogotá 39 Selection, 2017 • Encyclopædia Britannica’s Young Shapers of the Future, 2020 • Coronel Lágrimas (Anagrama, 2015).

Translated by Megan McDowell as Natural History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) • La Lucidez del Miope (Editorial Germinal, 2017) • Austral (Anagrama, 2022).