birth_date: 1982-01-01 00:00:00
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name: Giuseppe Caputo
about: Giuseppe Caputo was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1982. He studied creative writing at New York University and at the University of Iowa. Also at Iowa, he specialised in queer and gender studies. An Orphan World is his début novel, and earned Caputo a place as part of the 2017 Hay Festival’s Bogotá 39 list of best Latin American writers under 40. He is also the author of several books of poems including Garden of Meat, The Cage Man and Jesus’ Nativities, and of a second novel which remains unpublished to date. He is a contributor to Arcadia magazine and El Tiempo newspaper. After being Cultural Director of the Bogotá International Book Festival for many years, Caputo now teaches creative writing at the Instituto Caro Cuervo in Bogotá.