Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of such critically acclaimed books as What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) which was a winner of the Frantz Fanon Award, and Story of a Death Foretold. The Coup Against Salvador Allende (Bloomsbury, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award, and was selected among the best non-fiction publications of the year.
His more recent works include In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: UTadeo, 2019), ‘A Future for the Philosophy of Liberation’ in Decolonising Ethics (Pennsylvania University Press, 2020), and the poetic novel Night of the World (The 87 Press, 2021). He’s a Fellow of the RSA and teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. His docu-series “Art & Fire: A Journey in Five Films”, was co-produced with Hay Festivals.
