Vanessa Londono She is a 36-year-old Colombian woman who has lived in New York for 8 years., and there, from the Big Apple and its universe of cultures and languages, he has strengthened his talent for writing and has catapulted it into another complex universe; that of literature.
This woman from Bogota, who is also a lawyertraveled to the United States with the idea of specializing in creative writing, but also to establish herself as a writer, and thanks to her commitment, sacrifice and a unique gift that she herself has fostered, Today, she is one of the Colombian women of letters who makes her way quickly in the world of letters..
Vanessa Londono arouses concern in the literary universe due to her unique and personal style that manages to decipher in a particular way the universes that she raises in her workswhich have a lot of Colombia, a mark of joy, but also a kind of tragic destiny with which we Colombians have to live, grow, emigrate and die.
Vanessa Londoño is the winner of the Aura Estrada award in 2017, an award given in Mexico and that is consolidated as a springboard for literary talents in the Latin American sphere. He also won the award for New Pens in Guadalajara.
With the book “Los impares”, Vanessa Londoño addresses Colombian violence from a very special perspective, crude, but also reflective.always showing that nonsense of violence that Colombians have had to live and suffer.
“Los Impares talks about the loss of body parts until their disappearance. It is a book of short stories and each one takes place in a different place in the world”says Vanessa Londoño.
Vanessa Londoño is a regular contributor to different media, including Vice from Mexico, El Malpensante from Colombia and El Faro from El Salvadorand Colombia, is the referent of their stories, that is why with “The Animal Siege”her latest work, starkly portrays the physical and sexual violence against women in Colombia at the hands of armed groups such as guerrillas or paramilitaries.
“This transit of historical moments in Colombia made the novel turn on characters who are condemned to a violence from which it is impossible to escape”said the writer to the newspaper El País, Mexico edition.
Colombian letters have a great future in Vanessa Londoño, because the present is packed with his particular narrative books that each time arouse the attention of lovers of lettersand all those who see themselves reflected in stories like the ones he tells, so full of details and rich in characters, sensations and emotions.