Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s books including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and bestseller The Sound of Things Falling and the Booker International finalist The Shape of the Ruins, as well as Retrospective, Reputations, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collection Lovers on All Saints' Day. His work has been published in more than forty languages. He lives in Madrid.
Anne McLean is a translator who has twice won both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. She received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award with Vásquez for The Sound of Things Falling. She lives in Toronto.
