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Margarita García Robayo
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Juan Sebastián Cárdenas

Voices of Colombia CANCELLED

Margarita García Robayo and Juan Sebastián Cárdenas

Sunday, 6 April 2025

12:00pm

1 hour

Exeter College: Chapel

£8 - £15

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Two Colombian writers, Margarita García Robayo and Juan Sebastián Cárdenas, talk about their work and the Colombian voice.

Robayo was born in Colombia and now lives and teaches in Argentina. She is author of novels including Holiday Heart, winner of the English PEN award, and a collection of novellas and short stories, Fish Soup. The Delivery is her most recent novel published in English. It is a story of family, memory and possibility.

Cárdenas was born in Colombia and now lives in Spain. He was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. His novels include Zumbido and Elástico de sombra. The Devil of the Provinces was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. His latest is Peregrino transparente (Transparent Pilgrim), which is the story of an English painter on a scientific tour of Colombia in 1850. The painter becomes obsessed with the life of a local artist and finds himself embroiled in the politics of the young republic.

Part of the festival programme of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Spain Arts and Culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London elBullifoundation Embassy of Peru Embassy of Peru Embassy of Chile in the UK Embassy of Chile Iberia British Airways Embassy of the Dominican Republic Embassy of the Dominican Republic Institut Ramon Llull Promoting Catalan culture and language worldwide Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Symington Wines of the Douro Valley HM Government of Gibraltar Sotheby’s Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Gravita Accountants to the festival Confucius Institute Voltaire Foundation Felicity Bryan Associates Goldmoney Properties Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize Jim Mellon Miles Young Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Ian and Carol Sellars David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Other donors Yale University Press London New College New College founded 1379 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Harris Manchester College Harris Manchester College founded 1893 Pusey House Founded 1884 New Dutch Writing Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford University Images Oxford University Images CAV Oxford The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Science Oxford Windrush Group The Oxford Times Italian Cultural Institute BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Conference Oxford Ox in a Box OX magazine Africa programme American programme