Juan Cárdenas was born in Popayán, Colombia, in 1978. He is one of the most prominent young Latin American authors of the moment. Author of the storybook Carreras delictivas (2008) and the novel Zumbido (2010, recently reissued by Periférica), he has translated authors such as William Faulkner, Gordon Lish, Muriel Spark, Norman Mailer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wolfe, Eça de Queirós or Machado de Assis. Between 2008 and 2010 he received a creation scholarship at the prestigious Student Residence in Madrid. In 2013 we published his novel Los estratos in Periférica, which was received with praise by critics from Spain and America and in 2014 won the Other Voices, Other Scopes Award for the best cult novel (written in Spanish and published in Spain the previous year). . Subsequently, his next novel, Ornamento (2015), appeared.