In addition to presenting her novel ” Los abismos “, Pilar Quintana will take part in the maximum festival of letters in Panama in a colloquium on literature. The literary meeting will take place between August 19 and 22.
The Colombian writer Pilar Quintana, awarded last January with the Alfaguara Novel Prize for her work Los abismos , will participate in the 17th edition of the International Book Fair of Panama (FIL), which will be held from August 19 to 22 in version semi-virtual.
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“Yes, Quintana confirmed us, he is going to participate,” said Orit Btesh, president of the Panamanian Chamber of Books and organizer of the International Book Fair of Panama. Btesh, businesswoman and owner of the El Hombre de La Mancha bookstore chain, said that Quintana will present Los abismos at the literary meeting, a work that delves into “the darkness of the adult world through the point of view of a girl” , as stated by the jury of the Alfaguara Novel Prize, when making public the decision of the contest. Likewise, Btesh added that Chilean writer Isabel Allende is among the writers who have been invited to the next edition of FIL.
As for Los abismos , the jury, chaired by the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, highlighted that it is a novel that has as a backdrop the narrow female universe formed by women accommodated to their lives who cannot break with an education from another time . In addition to presenting her novel, declared the winner of the Alfaguara by majority, the Colombian author will participate in the maximum festival of letters in Panama in a colloquium on literature, according to the director of FIL.
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Quintana has published four novels: Cosquillas en la lengua (2003), Coleccionistas de powders raros (2007), Conspiración iguana (2009) and La perra (2017). The latter, which is being translated into 14 languages and for which the audiovisual rights have already been sold, received the Colombian Narrative Award in 2018 and was a finalist for the US National Book Awards in 2020, in the category of better translation. In addition, Quintana, who in 2007 was selected by the Hay Festival among the 39 most outstanding Latin American writers under 39, is the author of the collection of short stories Caperucita se eats al lobo .
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