Juan Álvarez

Juan Álvarez (born 1978) is a Colombian writer. He is the author of Heroegram , Narrative Arkhe, and The Three Pillars of Change.

Biography Álvarez started his career at the Writer's Workshop at the Universidad Central in Bogotá. In 2002, he moved to the US-Mexican border, where he earned his M.F.A from the University of Texas at El Paso.

His book of short stories, Falsas Alarmas, was awarded the National Prize for Short-Stories by the City of Bogota in 2005. Álvarez was selected to attend the first Hay Festival held in Cartagena de Indias in 2006. In 2008, he participated in the first meeting of Young Latin American Fiction Writers in Havana.

In 2011, Álvarez published his first novel, C. M. no record, based on the underground musical life of the Bogotá and Medellín rock and roll scene. (Guido Tamayo) and of a style “without pretensions” (Francisco Barrios). Others have insisted in the desolated universe of these short stories, populated mainly by young people “not marked by exotic adventures (...) but by the daily discovery of their absolute solitude” (Diana Ospina).