Ricardo Silva Romero Author

Ricardo Silva Romero is one of Colombia's most beloved writers. He is a prolific novelist, columnist, journalist, screenwriter, and film critic. In 2007 he was selected as one of the Bogot39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America. Ro Muerto is Silva Romero's first book to be published in English.

Victor Meadowcroft is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese and a graduate of the University of East Anglia's master's program in literary translation. His published translations include stories by Agustina Bessa-Lus in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and Too the Infallible by Evelio Rosero (co-translation with Anne McLean, New Directions, 2022), which was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in 2023 and longlisted for the Queen Sofa Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in the same year. His translation of Natalia Garca Freire's This World Does Not Belong to Us was published by World Editions in 2022 and was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Incln.