The Storm

About Tomas Gonzalez

Tomás González was born in 1950 in Medellín Colombia. He studied Philosophy before becoming a barman in a Bogotá nightclub whose owner published his first novel in 1983. González has lived in Miami and New York where he wrote much of his work while making a living as a translator. After twenty years in the US he returned to Colombia where he now lives. His books have been translated into six languages and his previous novel The Storm was published by Archipelago with translator Andrea Rosenberg.Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from the Spanish and Portuguese and an editor of the Buenos Aires Review. Among her recent and forthcoming full-length translations are Inês Pedrosa's In Your Hands Aura Xilonen's The Gringo Champion Juan Gómez Bárcena's The Sky over Lima and David Jiménez's Children of the Monsoon.