Cartagena is a 2015 Spanish-language novel by Uruguayan writer Claudia Amengual.

Set in Montevideo and Cartagena de Indias, it tells the story of a journalist living his midlife crisis who takes wrong decisions with disastrous consequences. Thirty years later, he travels to Cartagena in search of a new opportunity.^[1] Notably, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez appears as an important character in the last pages.^[2] This novel constitutes a posthumous tribute to the Colombian Nobel-Prize winner.^[3]

• Premio Herralde 2014: Finalist^[4] (Editorial Anagrama).^[5]