Alvaro Mutis

C. Max Magee covers the bases in his recommendation of this author: "None other than Gabriel Garcia Marquez called him 'one of the greatest writers of our time.' This Colombian author's life's work has focused, for the most part, on a single character, the incomparable Maqroll the Gaviero ["lookout"]. Several years ago he wrote seven novellas about Maqroll, a seaman who is one of literature's great wanderers, which have been collected as The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. If you thirst for adventure and mysterious characters with great emotional depth, read Maqroll."

More about Alvaro Mutis
+  Wiki entry on Mutis
+  Interview with Mutis at BOMB Magazine
+  An English translation of Mutis's poem "Tequila" in AGNI
+  New York Review of Books's page on the collected Maqroll works
+  Max answers the question "Who is Maqroll?" in greater detail