Laura Restrepo González

Laura Restrepo ( born in 1950 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian writer and activist.

Life and work

After their literature and philosophy studies at the Andes University in Bogotá, she finished her studies in political science also. Since the 1960s, she worked as an activist and wrote, among other things several non-fiction books on political issues in Colombia. In 1983 she was a member of an association that lobbied for an understanding with the left-wing guerrilla organization Movimiento 19 de Abril (M -19). Her first book, Historia de un entusiasmo (1986 ) had the ( in their view ) the government's failure in this process to the topic. After the release she went into exile in Spain and Mexico. In 1988, she returned to Colombia. For her third book, Dulce compañía (English title: The Angel of Galilea ) Laura Restrepo received the literary prize Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In 2004 she was awarded the literary prize Premio de Novela Alfaguara, 2006, the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Publications (excerpt)

• Story of a Fascination (1986 )
• Isle of Passion ( 1989); La isla de la pasión
• Las vacas comen Espaguetis (1989 )
• Leopard in the Sun ( 1993)
• The Angel of Galilea (1995 )
• Dulce compañía (1995 )
• The Dark Bride (1999)
• A Tale of the Dispossessed (2001)
• Olor a rosas invisibles (2002)
• Delirio (2004)

German editions

• The angel by my side ( 1997) ( translator's Ilse Layer)
• The Leopard in the Sun ( 1999) ( translator's Elisabeth Müller)
• The Dark Bride ( 2003) ( translator's Elisabeth Müller)
• Land of Ghosts ( 2009) ( translator's Elisabeth Müller)
• The Isle of the Lost ( 2011) ( translator's Elisabeth Müller). Luchterhand Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-630-87358-9 ---- 978. Original title: La isla de la pasión