Juan Gabriel Vasquez has won the lucrative IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his book The Sounds of Things Falling translated by Anne McLean.
In their announcement, the judges wrote: “Through a masterly command of layered time periods, spiralling mysteries and a noir palette, [The Sound of Things Falling] reveals how intimate lives are overshadowed by history; how the past preys on the present; and how the fate of individuals as well as countries is moulded by distant, or covert, events.”
Congratulations to Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Anne McLean! What an achievement!