Santiago Gamboa

He moved to Spain, where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares.

He made his debut as a novelist with Páginas de vuelta (1995); later he wrote Perder es cuestión de método (1997), which was translated into Italian, French, Greek, Portuguese, Czech, and German.

Later he published Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban (2000).

In 2009, Gamboa published Necropolis, a novel that won that year's La Otra Orilla Literary Prize.

As a journalist, he has been a contributor to the Latin American Service of Radio France International in Paris, a correspondent for El Tiempo and columnist for the magazine Cromos.