| Editor-in-Chief | Ángel Unfried |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | montly |
| Publisher | Editorial El Malpensante, S.A. |
| First issue | 1996 |
| Country | Colombia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Website | [1] |
| ISSN | 0122-9273 |
El Malpensante is a Colombian literary magazine founded in October 1996 by Andrés Hoyos Restrepo and Mario Jursich Durán, two minor writers.
The magazine's name was taken from a book of aphorisms written by Gesualdo Bufalino and translated by Jursich for Editorial Norma. The magazine and its members have been parodied by a blog called La bobada literaria.
The magazine is known as The New Yorker of Teusaquillo, by the tone and imitation that it does of the other magazine and because of the name of the neighborhood where the magazine is headquartered: Teusaquillo. The magazine combines local content with translated texts from English written magazines such as The New Yorker and Paris Review, etc.
The publisher of the magazine also conducts El Malpensante Festival, a series of annual events including a number of cultural activities in Bogotá. El Malpensante recently assumed command of the traditional bookstore Biblos, in Bogotá. In 2011, it was announced that there will not be an El Malpensante Festival, for economical reasons. It is an inclusive and unbiased magazine because its editor is the Afro-Colombian writer Ángel Unfried and it publishes text with different political and aesthetic views.