Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa

Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa studied at University of the Andes, Pontifical Xavierian University and University of Texas at El Paso. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are tale, journalism, literary criticism and essay. Miguel de Cervantes and Enrique Vila-Matas are recorded as an influence.

• Name — Juan Pablo Plata • Born — 1982 • Birthplace — Bogotá, Colombia • Occupation — novelist • Nationality — Colombian-Spanish • Genre — fiction, non-fiction • Movement — Latin American literature

Plata spent his childhood in Garzón (Huila). He graduated from the Emilio Valenzuela School in Bogotá. He started studying literature at the Universidad de los Andes, but finished his literary studies at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá with an emphasis in publishing. He completed his Master of Fine Arts in the bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. He currently lives between Tuvalu, Colombia, and the United States, where he completed a master's degree in creative writing. He has also worked as a seller of art and antiques.

Plata edited the magazine La movida literaria, together with fellow writers Andrés Mauricio Muñoz and Sebastián Pineda Buitrago which sparked a parody in a blog (La Bobada Literaria) and controversy in the magazines El Malpensante and Arcadia. He edited issue no. 40 and 41 of the bilingual magazine Rio Grande Review from the University of Texas at El Paso. It contained a special annex of bilingual hypermedia literature with contributions from academics such as Scott Rettberg and Leonardo Flores. He writes literary criticism for Colombian and Mexican media. He currently lives between Tuvalu, Colombia and the United States, where he completed a master's degree in literary creation. He has collaborated with the newspaper El Tiempo, Tras la Cola de la Rata with political columns, Letralia, Diario del Huila, Cuadruvio, El Espectador, Crónica, Banco de Occidente Credential Magazine, Kienyke, Level Magazine, Léase a Plena Noche, La Matera and the Cultural and Bibliographic Bulletin of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia. He classified the literary subgenre Mortara.