Ruben Varona

Who is Ruben Varona?

Ruben Varona is a Colombian author, poet, editor, and literary critic specialized in thrillers and detective narrative.

He was named representative for Latin America for the International Association of Crime Writers IACW.[1] He has been chosen for several collections and anthologies of short stories: At the Edge of Words, Road signs, The Dispensable and Zürich, Ausfahrt Mord Krimi-Anthologie, a global anthology of crime short stories translated into German, made by Paul Ott.

He is the author of the novels The Tailor of the Shadows and Wait for me naked among scorpions. He founded the cultural magazine La Mandragora in Popayán, Cauca.

In 2012, he received his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso and was finalist of the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta Casa de América with his novel La secta de los asesinos, cowritten with Carlos Bermeo. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Literature at Texas Tech University.