Suescún is author of an “antinovel”, Los cuadernos de N (1994), which has become an underground cult book among Colombia’s young people. He has published four books of short stories — El retorno a casa (1971), El último escalón (1974), El extraño y otros cuentos (1980) y Oniromanía (1996) — and several collections of poetry, among them, La vida es, 3 A.M (1986) and Bag Bag (selección) (2003), of which he made a selection in La voz de nadie. His poems as well as his short stories have been included in many anthologies. Suescún is also a graphic designer and journalist — he regularly writes on world affairs, now in Cromos. The collages with which he illustrates his work in magazines have been displayed in various exhibitions.

Nicolás Suescún translated into Spanish Rimbaud’s Une saison en enfer, Illuminations and Le Bateau ivre; Flaubert’s Madame Bovary; Balzac’s Seraphita; Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens; and selections of Bierce (Aceite de perros y otros cuentos macabros) and Robert Louis Stevenson (El príncipe Florizel) — as well as many other books of literary criticism, history, anthropology and business. Not yet published are his translations of The Black Riders and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake; and a selection: Un verde pensar bajo una sombre verde — Six poems de Andrew Marvell. Suescún has translated individual poems of many other poets. He also translated the work of Mario Rivero and Raúl Gómez Jattin into English.