Bogotá39

Bogotá39 was a collaborative project between the Hay Festival and Bogotá: UNESCO World Book Capital City 2007 in order to identify 39 of the most promising Latin American writers under the age of 39. The judges for the contest were three Colombian writers: Piedad Bonnett, Héctor Abad Faciolince and Óscar Collazos. The success of this project led to a similar project two years later called Beirut39, which selected 39 of the most promising writers from the Arab world. Africa39 followed in 2014.

==The 2007 list== Adriana Lisboa (Brazil) Alejandro Zambra (Chile) Álvaro Bisama (Chile) Álvaro Enrigue (Mexico) Andrés Neuman (Argentina) Antonio García Angel (Colombia) Antonio Ungar (Colombia) Carlos Wynter Melo (Panama) Claudia Amengual (Uruguay) Claudia Hernández González (El Salvador) Daniel Alarcón (Peru) Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala) Ena Lucía Portela (Cuba) Fabrizio Mejía Madrid (Mexico) Gabriela Alemán (Ecuador) Gonzalo Garcés (Argentina) Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico) Iván Thays (Peru) João Paulo Cuenca (Brazil) John Jairo Junieles (Colombia) Jorge Volpi (Mexico) José Pérez Reyes (Paraguay) Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) Junot Díaz (Dominican Republic) Karla Suárez (Cuba) Leonardo Valencia (Ecuador) Pablo Casacuberta (Uruguay) Pedro Mairal (Argentina) Pilar Quintana (Colombia) Ricardo Silva (Colombia) Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela) Rodrigo Hasbún (Bolivia) Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba) Santiago Nazarian (Brasil) Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru) Slavko Župčić (Venezuela) Veronica Stigger (Brasil) Wendy Guerra (Cuba) Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Puerto Rico)