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Silvana Paternostro

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Silvana Paternostro

Silvana Paternostro is a Colombian-born author and journalist who resides in New York City and writes mostly in English. She is the author of In The Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture, translated into Spanish and Portuguese; My Colombian War: A Journey Through The Country I Left Behind, and Soledad & Compañía: Un retrato oral de Gabriel García Márquez,  forthcoming in English  with a translation by Edith Grossman. She is always fascinated to read the translation of her writing into her mother tongue.

Articles by Silvana Paternostro

A Japanese Lesson
By Silvana Paternostro
When do the provocative girlie girls turn into discreet wives who put on conservative dresses?
Living to Tell New Tales
By Silvana Paternostro
The old story is changing.