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Giuseppe Caputo


Born
in Barranquilla, Colombia
January 01, 1982

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Giuseppe Caputo was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1982. He studied creative writing at New York University and at the University of Iowa. Also at Iowa, he specialised in queer and gender studies. An Orphan World is his début novel, and earned Caputo a place as part of the 2017 Hay Festival’s Bogotá 39 list of best Latin American writers under 40. He is also the author of several books of poems including Garden of Meat, The Cage Man and Jesus’ Nativities, and of a second novel which remains unpublished to date. He is a contributor to Arcadia magazine and El Tiempo newspaper. After being Cultural Director of the Bogotá International Book Festival for many years, Caputo now teaches creative writing at the Instituto Caro Cuervo in Bogotá.

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“Cuando peleábamos, mi padre besaba una foto de mi infancia; sin mirarme decía: "lo quiero a él, no a ti", y era doloroso, también, ponerme celoso de mí mismo.”
Giuseppe Caputo, Un mundo huérfano

“Es una mano invisible, más grande que yo, la que me empuja contra la cama: quiero comer y no quiero. Quiero salir y no quiero, Me quedo noches acostado. Si olvido que murió, me obligo a recordar que ha muerto”
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“Mientras lo oía, empecé a extrañar a mi padre, ahí mismo, estando a su lado, devastado por un pensamiento que se fue formando durante el brindis: “este hombre hermoso se va a morir un día”. Y mientras hablaba, entonces, y compartía su emoción, seguí extrañándolo más. Para calmar mi angustia, entonces, le empecé a rezar: “quédate siempre conmigo”, hasta que chocó su botella contra la mía. “¡Salud!”, gritó, y yo repetí “¡Salud!”
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