Octavio Escobar Giraldo


Octavio Escobar Giraldo is a Colombian physician and writer. He won the International Short Novel Award Ciudad de Barbastro XLV and the National Award for Best Novel from the Ministry of Culture for Después y antes de Dios. His narrative style is substantially influenced by television, music, cinema because, as he himself states, he went more to the movies than to class. He is the Director of the Manizales Book Fair, which he founded in 2009. He is a professor at the graduate school of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Caldas, located in the city where he was born, Manizales, Colombia. His trio of noir novels take on difficult social themes pertaining to the violence, the paramilitaries, and the false positives scandal, the over six thousand young people who were kidnapped and murdered by the Colombian military to meet quotas in the war against the guerrilla forces in the Colombian coffee growing axis, the mountainous region where the author was born and has spent his life.
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Novels

El último diario de Tony Flowers.Saide ), Awarded the Colombian National Prize for Best Noir Novel, translated into German and ItalianEl álbum de Mónica Pont, winner of the VIII Biennial National Novel Biennial "José Eustasio Rivera".1851. Folletín de cabo roto Destinos intermediarios Cielo parcialmente nublado Después y antes de Dios, translated into French as Après et avant Dieu, 2016 National Award for Best Novel from the Colombian Ministry of Culture.El mapa de Sara Cada oscura tumba, finalist for the 2023 Rodolfo Walsh Award for best non-fiction crime novel written in Spanish.
  • ''Cassiani''

Collections of short fiction

El color del agua Las láminas más difíciles del álbum awarded the Premio Confamiliar del Atlántico de Literatura Infantil y JuvenilLa posada del Almirante Benbow De música ligera, awarded the 1998 Colombian National Literature Prize by the Colombian Ministry of Culture.Hotel en Shangri-Lá, awarded the National Short Fiction Prize by the University of Antioquia
  • Cuentos Cuentos de ida y vuelta, anthology with Mexican author Mónica Lavín
Escobar Giraldo's short fiction has been widely anthologized in Spanish and in other languages, including Bulgarian, Italian, and German.

Poetry

La manzana oxidada: tres poetas del viejo Caldas, with Flobert Zapata and Alberto Verón Historias clínicas, awarded the National Poetry Prize of the Tertulia de Gloria Luz GutiérrezManual de hipocondría, winner Premio Internacional de Poesía Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Editor

''Cuento caldense actual''

Awards and Recognitions