Writing about crimes you can’t forget.

Two Colombian writers put language to horrors that could finally see justice this year in their country. The main characters of their novels are close relatives of victims – those for whom the crime continues long after it was committed. How powerful is fiction when reality defies the mind? How can language help when it has been so degraded by violence? What role can literature play in transitional justice? Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero take us out of the “hospital of words”.

Source: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/140230-colombia-writing-about-crimes-you-cant-forget.html