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'''Juan Esteban Constaín''' is a [[Colombian]] writer. He was born in 1979 in [[Popayán]]. He published his first book in 2004, a short story collection titled ''Los Mártires''. His first novel followed three years later, titled ''El naufragio del Imperio''. His second novel ''¡Calcio!'', dealing with the probable origins of football, won the [[Espartaco prize]]. His 2014 book ''El hombre que no fue Jueves'' (''The Man Who Wasn't Thursday'') was a homage to [[G.K. Chesterton]]'s classic novel ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]''. It became a domestic bestseller and won the [[Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana]] prize. He has also published a book on [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]] titled ''Gabo contesta'' (2015).<ref>[http://bit.ly/2JM6Esl Profile]</ref>
Constain lives and works in [[Bogota]], where he teaches international relations at the [[Universidad del Rosario]]. He is also a translator and newspaper columnist. In 2017, he was named as one of the [[Bogota39]], a selection of the best young writers in Latin America.
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Constain lives and works in [[Bogota]], where he teaches international relations at the [[Universidad del Rosario]]. He is also a translator and newspaper columnist. In 2017, he was named as one of the [[Bogota39]], a selection of the best young writers in Latin America.
==References==
[[category:Colombian writers]]
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