Contemporary Colombian novelist
Evelio Rosero was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1958. He was awarded Colombia's National Literature Prize by the Ministry of Culture in 2006 for his body of work, which includes several novels, short story collections, and books for young readers and children. The Armies, Rosero's first novel to be translated into English, won the Tusquets International Prize and the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Good Offices
The Armies
“The translation is sublime. Moving from offbeat humor to soaring spiritual ecstasy, it has both pathos and punch.”
— The Guardian on Evelio Rosero's Good Offices
“A compact, vigorous treat, often blue, sharp as a scimitar, and saturated in suspense.”
— Biblioklept on Evelio Rosero's Good Offices
