El Malpensante

El Malpensante
Front cover of "El Malpensante" issue 236. Artwork by Diego Mallo.
Front cover of "El Malpensante" issue 236. Artwork by Diego Mallo.
DirectorAndrés Hoyos
EditorSantiago Erazo
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderAndrés Hoyos Restrepo
Mario Jursich Durán
First issue31 October 1996 (1996-10-31)
CompanyEditorial El Malpensante, S.A.
CountryColombia
Based inBogotá, D.C.
LanguageSpanish
Websitewww.elmalpensante.com
ISSN0122-9273
OCLC39475558

El Malpensante (Spanish: The Misthinker) is a Colombian literary magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, short stories, graphic art and poetry founded in 1996. Its founders were Andrés Hoyos Restrepo and Mario Jursich Durán. The name of the magazine was extracted from a book of aphorisms written by Gesualdo Bufalino.

Among the collaborators of the magazine it can be named authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Germán Espinosa, Leila Guerriero, Juan Gabriel Vázquez, Margaret Atwood, Juan Villoro, Samanta Schweblin and many others.