Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa

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Juan Pablo Plata
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Born	Juan Pablo Plata Bogota, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
Pen name	Jean Paul Silver
Occupation	Novelist, short-story, literary translation, journalist, essayist, writer, and poet.
Language	Spanish, English
Nationality	Colombian
Citizenship	Colombian
Genre	Novel, Essay, Screenplay, Short stories, translation and Poems.

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. , 2010. Spain).^[1] He published one of the first anthologies 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 redition)^[2][3][4]

He won two awards (website and interview with painter David Manzur, with the magazine La Movida Literaria) of journalism given by (2005) and prize in 2006 with the collective journalistic weblog .

He was editor of La Movida Literaria ^[5] (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.^[6] He is a MFA student of the bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was editor in chief of the bilingual Rio Grande Review.^[7] In 2018 published Arqueo de los días (Inventary of days) (With Ibáñez Editores and Silver Editions, book companies)^[8][9] a personal anthology of journalism, non fiction book, with interviews ( to Enrique Vila-Matas, Tryno Maldonado, Juan Villoro), chronicles and profiles in Spanish. He was editor of literary horror magazine Lease a plena noche at Colombia. He is a current contributor of magazine Corónica. ^[10]

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• Señales de ruta ebook edition 2012
• Review by author of Gentario by Javier Munguia (Spanish)
• Colombian fiction 21st century anthology Inhabited heart
• Senales de ruta in World Catalog
• Review by author of Inherent vice by Thomas Pynchon. (Spanish)
• Profile of Christopher Hitchens (Spanish)