The best of Meet the Writers: Héctor Abad.

In this special edition of ‘The Monocle Daily’, we look back at some of the year’s best ‘Meet the Writers’ interviews. Here we take you to Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias in Colombia to introduce one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers, Héctor Abad. He’s a journalist and novelist and now he’s written a memoir about his relationship with his father, including his shocking murder by paramilitaries.