Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer from Cali who studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra and Coleccionistas de polvos raros, the second of which won the Premio de Novela La Mar de Letras in Spain in 2010. Her novel Los abismos won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in 2021, and its English translation, Abyss, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. She has also published a short story collection, Caperucita se come al lobo.
