- Interviewer: Is your literature moving away from Colombia? Perder es cuestión de método, for instance, is a very Colombian story, but lately even if you preserve the Colombian characters, your novels take place very far away, they are more globalised.
- Santiago Gamboa: I think that is an achievement of my generation: to be able to write novels in other countries. The idea that the Peruvian wrote only about Peru, the Mexican about Mexico and the Colombian about Colombia, stayed behind. Nobody asks a French writer to write about France, so to get that freedom as a Latin American is a great achievement. My literature can get away from Colombia in terms of geography, but not emotionally. Many Colombians travel, live things that were not previously lived.
- Interviewer: Is your literature moving away from Colombia? Perder es cuestión de método, for instance, is a very Colombian story, but lately even if you preserve the Colombian characters, your novels take place very far away, they are more globalised.
- Santiago Gamboa: I think that is an achievement of my generation: to be able to write novels in other countries. The idea that the Peruvian wrote only about Peru, the Mexican about Mexico and the Colombian about Colombia, stayed behind. Nobody asks a French writer to write about France, so to get that freedom as a Latin American is a great achievement. My literature can get away from Colombia in terms of geography, but not emotionally. Many Colombians travel, live things that were not previously lived.
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