{"id":3177,"date":"2023-09-12T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.scenicrights.com\/author\/jorge-franco\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:38:50","slug":"jorge-franco","status":"publish","type":"autor","link":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/en\/author\/jorge-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Franco"},"template":"","class_list":["post-3177","autor","type-autor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"autor_contenido":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Scenic Rights is the audiovisual co-agency of Casanovas &amp; Lynch Literary Agency<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Jorge Franco is a Colombian writer internationally recognized for novels that have become major literary and audiovisual successes. His works, translated into multiple languages and published worldwide, have established him as one of the most representative voices of contemporary Colombian fiction.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">He was initially trained in filmmaking, studying Film Directing and Production at The London Film School (UK). He later expanded his literary education at the Literary Workshop of Medell\u00edn\u2019s Biblioteca P\u00fablica Piloto, the Writers\u2019 Workshop at Universidad Central, and studied Literature at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Franco has published short stories and articles in various magazines and was invited by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez to co-teach a workshop with him at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Ba\u00f1os, Cuba. He has also served as a tutor in the Master\u2019s Program in Creative Writing at the National University of Colombia.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Many of his novels have reached number one bestseller status in Colombia, with several achieving significant international impact. His best-known work, <i>Para\u00edso Travel<\/i>, has been translated into a dozen languages and adapted for both film and television, becoming one of the highest-grossing films in Colombian cinema. Another major success, <i>Rosario Tijeras<\/i>, was also adapted for film and more recently as a television series. In total, the author has published more than fifteen works, including novels, short stories, and anthologies.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Throughout his career, Jorge Franco has received numerous literary honors, including the <b>Dashiell Hammett Prize at Semana Negra de Gij\u00f3n<\/b>, the <b>Alfaguara Novel Prize<\/b>, <b>First Prize in the Pedro G\u00f3mez Valderrama National Narrative Competition<\/b>, and <b>First Prize at the 14th National Novel Competition Ciudad de Pereira<\/b>. He was also a <b>finalist for the Colcultura National Fellowship<\/b>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">His peers and literary figures have praised his talent:<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThis is one of the Colombian authors to whom I would like to pass the torch.\u201d \u2014 Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cFew novelists writing in my language inspire as much admiration in me as Jorge Franco.\u201d \u2014 Almudena Grandes<\/span>","_thumbnail_id":938,"autor__galeria_archivos":"","idauthor":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jorge Franco - Scenic\u00a0Rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/en\/author\/jorge-franco\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jorge Franco - Scenic\u00a0Rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scenic Rights is the audiovisual co-agency of Casanovas &amp; 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