Ángela Becerra

Ángela Becerra Acevedo is a Colombian writer. She has won several awards such as the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela in 2019, the Planeta-Casa de América Award in 2009, the Azorín Prize in 2005 and four Chicago Latin Literary Awards, as well as the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa. Her works have been translated into 23 languages and published in more than 50 countries. She is one of the most widely read Spanish-speaking authors, the most read Colombian writer after Gabriel García Márquez, and considered the creator of the Magical Idealism.