Mario Mendoza Libros Jun 2026

Mario Mendoza Jaramillo (Bogotá, 1964) occupies a unique space in Colombian letters. Unlike the magical realists who preceded him, Mendoza’s reality is stark, urban, and often dystopian. A professor of literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a columnist for El Tiempo , Mendoza is not only a creator of fiction but a theorist of narrative.

His most famous and internationally acclaimed novel. Based on the real-life Pozzetto massacre in Bogotá (1986), the book weaves together multiple stories that converge toward an inevitable explosion of evil. A profound reflection on the banality of evil and the darkness that lurks within ordinary people. mario mendoza libros