Efraim Medina Reyes is a Colombian writer born June 29, 1964 in Cartagena

Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department...

, Colombia

Colombia

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. He is also the bassist and composer of the rock band, he currently lives between Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and Vicenza

Vicenza

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, Italy

Italy

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. He is influenced by American cinema, jazz music and works of Andrés Caicedo

Andrés Caicedo

Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature...

, an emblematic figure of contemporary Colombian literature. As a writer, Efraim Medina Reyes emphasizes the hectic life of urban youths. He uses narrative techniques such as collage

Collage

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Some of his works were translated and published in Italian by Feltrinelli, Portuguese by Planeta

Planeta

Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta, is a Spanish media group based in Barcelona. The company operates in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. Editorial Planeta, its flagship, was founded in 1949. Planeta owns over 70 publishing houses worldwide. It publishes the...

, French by 13e Note Editions and Finnish by Ivan Rotta & Co.

Major works

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Awards and honors

• 1985 Premio Nacional de Poesía ICFES
• 1986 Concurso Revista Aracataca
• 1986 Concurso Nacional de Cuento de Barranquilla
• 1986 Concurso Nacional de Cuento de Medellín
• 1987 Concurso Nacional de Novela Ciudad de Pereira.
• 1995 Premio Nacional de Literatura Colcultura for Cinema árbol y otros cuentos
• 1997 Concurso nacional de novela del Ministerio de Cultura for Erase una vez el amor pero tuve que matarlo
• 1999 Beca del Fondo Mixto de Cultura de Cartagena

External links

• 7 Torpes Band songs
• Yesterday a poem
• Five short fictions
• Excerpt of the novel Sexualidad de la Pantera Rosa
• Articles by Efraim Medina Reyes in Soho
• Presentation of the novel on Literaturas Comunicación SL
• Interview by Entretenimiento & Cultura
• Efraim Medina's Facebook Page
• Efraim Medina's Twitter Account