Juan Antonio Gossaín Abdallah[2] (born January 17, 1949) is a Colombian radio national news director, chief editor, and journalist, as well as a novelist.

One of his former colleagues at RCN was Humberto De la Calle, former vice president of Colombia and a negotiator during the peace process, about which Gossaín interviewed him.

[8] Over the course of his career as a journalist, he covered at least 10 presidential campaigns and even did a special for El Tiempo newspaper about electoral corruption.

[14] His writing often contained attention grabbing language that enhanced his storytelling leaving his audience in suspense, unable to put his work down.

These qualities of writing led Gossaín to be viewed as a fabulist known as someone with the capability of creating exhilarating stories about different characters.

It is called Centro de Altos Estudios Juan Gossaín and he created this place so he could be able to teach young writers the art of narrating reality.

What Gossaín experienced and portrayed in this novel was the feeling of grayness and the buildings that invaded the souls of the people who lived in them.