MONTAGUE KOBB\u00c9 is\u00a0an ambilingual writer with a Shakespearean name, born in Caracas, in a country that no longer exists, in a millennium that is long gone. He has resided in London, Munich, Madrid, Florence, and Anguilla \u2013 a recondite Leeward Island to which he has had ties for over 30 years.<\/p>\n
His debut novel\u00a0The Night of the Rambler<\/em>\u00a0(Akashic: NYC, 2013) deals with revolution and human dignity, and it earned a mention in the 2014 Premio Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas for best English or Creole-language Caribbean book. His second novel, On the Way Back <\/em>is set in the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and tackles issues of racial and social prejudice with a dose of humour. His\u00a0bilingual collection of flash fiction Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges<\/em> (Dog Horn 2014) was adapted to the theatre and staged at the Cervantes Theatre in London in 2017.<\/p>\n He is the co-editor of Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela <\/em>(Ragpicker Press, 2016), a collection of thirty texts by thirty Venezuelan authors, and the translator of a number of art books with the Spanish publisher La F\u00e1brica.<\/p>\n As part of the collective Puerto Libre, he organised in 2019 and 2020 the Festival of Latin American Culture in Florence<\/a>, Italy.<\/p>\n An expert chiromancer and telepathist, he wrote regularly between 2008 and 2018 for the Weekender<\/em> supplement of Sint Maarten’s The Daily Herald <\/em>newspaper. He has been published in The New York Times<\/em>, the TLS<\/em>, the Miami Herald<\/em>, Venezuela’s El Nacional<\/em> and Chile’s Mercurio<\/em> among many others, and keeps track of his writing on the blog MEMO FROM LA-LA LAND<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want to have a word? Send me a line to montycobbe [at] gmail [dot] com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MONTAGUE KOBB\u00c9 is\u00a0an ambilingual writer with a Shakespearean name, born in Caracas, in a country that no longer exists, in a millennium that is long gone. He has resided in London, Munich, Madrid, Florence, and Anguilla \u2013 a recondite Leeward Island to which he has had ties for over 30 years. His debut novel\u00a0The Night […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaguekobbe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}