Tomás González (writer)

Tomás González (born Medellin, 1950) is a Colombian writer. He studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is best known for his debut novel In the Beginning Was the Sea (1983) which was translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by Pushkin Press. The translation was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. González lived in the United States for twenty years before returning to his native Colombia in 2002.[1]

He is the nephew of the writer Fernando Gonzalez.

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