Bogotá39 was a collaborative project between the Hay Festival and Bogotá: UNESCO World Book Capital City 2007 in order to identify 39 of the most promising Latin American writers under the age of 39.[1] The judges for the contest were three Colombian writers: Piedad Bonnett, Héctor Abad Faciolince and Óscar Collazos. The success of this project led to a similar project two years later called Beirut39, which selected 39 of the most promising writers from the Arab world. Africa39 followed in 2014.
The 2007 list
- Adriana Lisboa (Brasil)
 - Alejandro Zambra (Chile)
 - Álvaro Bisama (Chile)
 - Álvaro Enrigue (México)
 - Andrés Neuman (Argentina)
 - Antonio García Angel (Colombia)
 - Antonio Ungar (Colombia)
 - Carlos Wynter Melo (Panamá)
 - Claudia Amengual (Uruguay)
 - Claudia Hernández González (El Salvador)
 - Daniel Alarcón (Perú)
 - Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala)
 - Ena Lucía Portela (Cuba)
 - Fabrizio Mejía Madrid (México)
 - Gabriela Alemán (Ecuador)
 - Gonzalo Garcés (Argentina)
 - Guadalupe Nettel (México)
 - Iván Thays (Perú)
 - João Paulo Cuenca (Brasil)
 - John Jairo Junieles (Colombia)
 - Jorge Volpi (México)
 - José Pérez Reyes (Paraguay)
 - Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia)
 - Junot Díaz (Dominican Republic)
 - Karla Suárez (Cuba)
 - Leonardo Valencia (Ecuador)
 - Pablo Casacuberta (Uruguay)
 - Pedro Mairal (Argentina)
 - Pilar Quintana (Colombia)
 - Ricardo Silva (Colombia)
 - Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela)
 - Rodrigo Hasbún (Bolivia)
 - Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba)
 - Santiago Nazarian (Brasil)
 - Santiago Roncagliolo (Perú)
 - Slavko Župčić (Venezuela)
 - Veronica Stigger (Brasil)
 - Wendy Guerra (Cuba)
 - Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Puerto Rico)
 
The 2017 list
- Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba)
 - Frank Báez (Dominican Republic)
 - Natalia Borges Polesso (Brazil)[2]
 - Giuseppe Caputo (Colombia)
 - Juan Cárdenas (Colombia)
 - Mauro Javier Cárdenas (Ecuador)
 - María José Caro (Peru)
 - Martín Felipe Castagnet (Argentina)
 - Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia)
 - Juan Esteban Constaín (Colombia)
 - Lola Copacabana (Argentina)
 - Gonzalo Eltesch (Chile)
 - Diego Erlan (Argentina)
 - Daniel Ferreira (Colombia)
 - Carlos Fonseca Suárez (Costa Rica)
 - Damián González Bertolino (Uruguay)
 - Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Puerto Rico)
 - Gabriela Jauregui (Mexico)
 - Laia Jufresa (Mexico)
 - Mauro Libertella (Argentina)
 - Brenda Lozano (Mexico)
 - Valeria Luiselli (Mexico)
 - Alan Mills (Guatemala)
 - Emiliano Monge (Mexico)
 - Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador)
 - Eduardo Plaza (Chile)
 - Eduardo Rabasa (Mexico)
 - Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia)
 - Juan Manuel Robles (Peru)
 - Cristian Romero (Colombia)
 - Juan Pablo Roncone (Chile)
 - Daniel Saldaña París (Mexico)
 - Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)
 - Jesús Miguel Soto (Venezuela)
 - Luciana Sousa (Argentina)
 - Mariana Torres (Brazil)
 - Valentín Trujillo (Uruguay)
 - Claudia Ulloa (Peru)
 - Diego Zuñiga (Chile)
 
References
- ↑ Bogota39 official website
 - ↑  de 2017, 7 de Mayo. "Los 39 jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos elegidos como los mejores del año". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-05.
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