Andrés Felipe Solano (born 9 February 1977) is a Colombian novelist who published Sálvame, Joe Louis (2010); Los hermanos Cuervo (2012) and Salario Mínimo-Vivir con nada (2016), a long-form essay about his experience as a factory worker living on the minimum wage for six months in Medellín, Colombia, where he rented a room in a notoriously violent neighborhood. A previous version of this piece was chosen as the finalist for the prize awarded by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, chaired by Gabriel García Márquez in 2008. He also published Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja, a non-fiction book about his life in South Korea, which received the 2016 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize. His third novel, Cementerios de neón (2017) is partly based in a Colombian veteran from the Korean war. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders and World Literature Today. He was featured in Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists. He has served as writer in residence in Yaddo, Ledig House, Toji Cultural Center, Yoeonhui Arts Space and Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Life He lived in Medellín.six-month literary residence in Seoul He teaches at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
His work appeared in the Catapult, New York Times Magazine, Words Without Borders, Anew, and Granta.
Works Sálvame, Joe Louis, Alfaguara, 2007, (Save Me, Joe Louis) (The Cuervo Brothers). Corea: apuntes desde la cueda floja, 2015 Salario mínimo, vivir con nada, 2015 Cementerios de neón, 2017 Los días de la fiebre, Temas de hoy, 2020. Gloria, Sexto Piso, 2023
Short stories
Pig Skin, Granta, 2014 White Flamingo, McSweeney's, 2014 Manos de Diamante, universocentro, 2018 We´ll All End Up Rocks in a Lake, Busan Biennale 2020
References
External links Interviews with the Authors of McSweeney’s 46: The Latin American Crime Issue - Andrés Felipe Solano