Pilar Quintana is a Colombian author whose previous novel, The Bitch, won an English PEN Translates award and was a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. It also won the Colombian Biblioteca de Narrativa Prize, and was chosen as one of the most valuable objects to preserve for future generations in a marble time capsule in Bogotá. Abyss, her latest novel, was awarded the Alfaguara Novel Prize.

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