James Cañón

Cañón's debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows, (ISBN 978-0061140389) was originally written in English, his second language.

Praised internationally as "An important contribution to American literature," the novel tells the story of Mariquita, a Colombian village that's forever altered the day a band of communist guerrillas takes out all but three of its men.

Left to fend for themselves, the abandoned women slowly emerge from their supporting roles as wives and daughters to become unwitting founders of a radically socialist society, a metamorphosis that Kirkus Reviews has described as "Slyly pushing the envelope that Aristophanes opened with Lysistrata."

Cañón's novel has been published in over twenty countries and translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Croatian and Polish.

In 2020 an excerpt from a forthcoming book[2] appeared in Unpublishable, an anthology edited by Chris Molnar from Archway Editions/Simon & Schuster.