WOLA-DUKE HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

Doctor Héctor Abad Gómez dedicated his last years, right up to the day he was murdered in the center of Medellín, to defending social equality and human rights. The Oblivion We'll Become is the tender and patient reconstruction of a person, the author's father.

It is a story full of smiles that sings the joy of life while simultaneously highlighting the sadness and anger provoked by the death of a rare being. The exorcism of the paternal figure is a challenge that runs through many famous pages of literary history.

Who doesn't remember the works of Kafka, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, or V. S. Naipaul regarding their beloved or controversial parent? Now, it will be hard for us to forget this heartbreaking book, written with courage and tenderness by Héctor Abad Faciolince.