Pen name Jean Paul Silver Citizenship Colombian Language Spanish , English Name Juan Plata | Nationality Colombian Role Writer Ethnicity Hispanic | |
Occupation Novelist, short-story, translator, journalist, essayist, writer, and poet. | ||
Education University of Los Andes | ||
Juan Pablo Plata (born 1982) is a Colombian writer, journalist and researcher.
Born in Bogota, he studied literature at Universidad de los Andes, but did graduate from Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá.
He was anthologized in the book Umpalá (Sic Editores, 2006) and Inhabited heart. Recent stories about love in Colombia (Algaida. Grupo Anaya, 2010. Spain). He published the first anthology of Colombian short stories in the 21st century, called Signals of Path, which featured 27 Colombian authors (Señales de ruta, Arango Editores, 2008 and 2012 ebook rendition)
He won two awards (website and interview with painter David Manzur, with the magazine La Movida Literaria) of journalism given by Andiarios (2005) and CPB prize in 2006 with the collective journalistic weblog Generation Invisible.
He was editor of La Movida Literaria (a small literary magazine in Bogota, Colombia) which aroused a parody on blogs and a controversy between magazines El Malpensante and Arcadia. He writes book reviews and articles for magazines in United States like Level Magazine, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela like Letralia. As a researcher he made a proposal for classification of electronic literature under a literary subgenre called Mortara, to name hybrid literary works that use previous existing and classified genres and sound, images, motion pictures, etc., either print or in hypertext. He was MFA student of the bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso until 2013.