Laura Restrepo

Laura Restrepo
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Fiction

Laura Restrepo is one of the most skilled writers to emerge from Latin America since the days of the Latin American Boom. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1950. After about 25 years she began to write her first serious works, mainly political columns. In 1968 she became a literature professor at the National University. Years later she left teaching and became a part of the revolution. She started in Colombia then traveled to Spain and Argentina where she took part in the underground resistance of the military dictatorship. Her first fiction novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical facts from Clipperton Island. This novel is believed to be the beginning of her career as a writer. In 2004 she became the director of the Institute of Culture and Tourism in Bogotá. She resigned soon after she received the Alfaguara Prize for Delirium. She was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.

Works

• Story of a Fascination (Historia de un Entusiasmo) (1986)
• Isle of Passion (Isla de la pasión) (1989)
• The Cows Eat Spaghetti (Las vacas comen espaguetis) (1989) (for children)
• Leopard in the Sun (El Leopardo al Sol: Novela) (1993)
• The Angel of Galilea (El Angel de Galilea) (1995)
• Sweet Company (Dulce Compania: Novela) (1996)
• The Dark Bride (La Novia Oscura: Novela) (1999)
• A Tale of the Dispossessed (La Multitud Errante: Novela) (2001)
• Invisible Roses Odor (Olor a rosas invisibles) (2002)
• Delirium (Delirio) (2004)
• Too Many Heroes (Demasiados heroes) (2009)

As a co-author

• Operation Prince (Operación Príncipe) (1988)
• En qué momento se jodió Medellín (1991)
• Love and Fire (Del amor y del fuego) (1991)
• Other Children (Otros niños) (1993)

External links

• 2000 Interview in lateral (in Spanish)
• 2001 Interview in BOMB Magazine
• 2002 Interview on NOW with Bill Moyers