Max Vergara Poeti (in full Massimo Christian Vergara Poeti-Marentini) (born March 4, 1983) is a Colombian-Italian author, essayist and translator. He writes in Spanish and English. He is also a painter.
Considered the best voice of his generation of writers, his first collection of short stories appeared when he was 17, in one volume titled El mar, which was followed by a collection of poetry, Las Flores Áureas, that has appeared recently in a small press printing in South America.
He has written under his name and nicknames for important newspapers in Europe and Latin America, such as El Tiempo, Clarín (newspaper) and Corriere della Sera, plus in monthly magazines such as Margen, Crónica and The Atlantic Monthly. Vergara Poeti lives in Bogotá and writes articles for Libro de Notas and Adentro y Afuera, a writing project. He has announced his next novel, to be published in Europe and Latin America.
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