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Colombian literature, as an expression of the culture of Colombia, is heterogeneous due to the coexistence of Spanish, African and Native American heritages in an extremely diverse geography. Five distinct historical and cultural traditions can be identified, with their own socioeconomic history: the Caribbean coast, Greater Antioquia, the ...
Women's Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History is a 2016 monograph by Cherilyn Elston, a scholar and translator at the University of Reading. Based on her doctoral thesis, the book surveys writing by Colombian women since the 1970s. [1] It won the Latin American Studies Association's Montserrat Ordóñez prize in 2018. [2]
Since Echavarria's birth in 1947, Colombia has not seen a year of peace. Over the last half century, Colombian violence has remained the largest conflict in the Western Hemisphere, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and displacing millions of people. The victims of the ongoing violence are mostly poor and vulnerable citizens. [3]
Antonio Ungar (born Bogotá, 1974) is a Colombian writer. [1] His novels have been translated into seven languages and his short stories have been included in more than twenty anthologies in five languages. His novel Tres ataúdes blancos was awarded the Herralde Prize in 2010, [2] and was short-listed for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2011.
This List of Colombian writers is an alphabetical list of writers born or brought up in Colombia, who already have Wikipedia pages in the English or Spanish Wikipedia. References for information given in the list appear on the Wikipedia pages concerned. This is a subsidiary list to the List of Colombian people.
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That same year he began writing opinion pieces for El Espectador, the most prominent liberal Colombian newspaper. In his columns he was deeply critical of the governments of Álvaro Uribe in Colombia and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. His political positions seem to defend freedom as a supreme value and an open, secular and liberal society:
Since writing proposes a hyper visceral aesthetic, which fears do not travel intricate regions of the human psyche, or skirting the limits of madness." [ 5 ] Mendoza has been a literary advocate for the city of Bogotá for over 20 years, tracing in his novels the neighborhoods, bridges, schools, streets, universities, parks and the changes that ...