List of Colombian writers
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n literary figures, including poet
s, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
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...
n literary figures, including poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
s, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars.
- Héctor Abad FaciolinceHéctor Abad FaciolinceHéctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novels Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos Héctor Abad Faciolince...
- Manuel AncízarManuel AncízarManuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist of Colombia.He was born in the state of Cundinamarca and educated in Bogotá. He then spent time in Cuba and Caracas, Venezuela, returning in 1847. He founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the...
(1812-1882), writer and journalist - Gonzalo ArangoGonzalo ArangoGonzalo Arango Arias was a Colombian poet, journalist and philosopher. He was famous in his country for being the founder of a literature and philosophy movement called "Nadaísmo" with other young Colombian thinkers of his generation and that was inspired by the Colombian philosopher Fernando...
(1931-1976), poet and novelist, founder of Nadaismo - Porfirio Barba-JacobPorfirio Barba-JacobMiguel Ángel Osorio Benítez , better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer....
(1883-1942), poet - Andrés CaicedoAndrés CaicedoLuis 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...
(1951-1977), novelist and short story writer - James CañónJames CañónBorn and raised in Ibagué, Colombia, James Cañón received his B.A in advertising from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogotá. He moved to New York in the mid 1990s to study English, and later earned his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. His short stories and essays have been...
, novelist - Tomás CarrasquillaTomás CarrasquillaTomás Carrasquilla Naranjo was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker of the Ministry of Public Works...
(1858-1940), novelist - Germán Castro CaycedoGermán Castro CaycedoGermán Castro Caycedo is a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena....
(1940-), journalist - Héctor Abad FaciolinceHéctor Abad FaciolinceHéctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novels Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos Héctor Abad Faciolince...
(1958-), writer and journalist - Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García MárquezGabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
(1927-), novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
winner (1982) - Adolfo León GómezAdolfo León GómezAdolfo León Gómez was a Colombian poet, jurist and politician born in Pasca, Cundinamarca. He was a grandson of Josefa Acevedo de Gomez, the first civilian woman writer in Colombia.-Further reading:...
(1857-1927), poet - León de GreiffLeón de GreiffFrancisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler , was a Colombian poet of the 20th century he is notable for his stylistic innovations and eclectic deliberate use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names of which the most popular were Leo le Gris...
- Jorge IsaacsJorge IsaacsJorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, María, became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish literature....
(1837–1895), novelist, author of MaríaMaría (novel)María is a novel written by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs between 1864 and 1867. It is a costumbrist novel representative of the Spanish romantic movement... - Efraim Medina ReyesEfraim Medina ReyesEfraim Medina Reyes is a Colombian writer born June 29, 1964 in Cartagena, Colombia. He is also the bassist and composer of the rock band, he currently lives between Colombia and Vicenza, Italy. He is influenced by American cinema, jazz music and works of Andrés Caicedo, an emblematic figure of...
(1967-), novelist and poet - Manuel Mejía VallejoManuel Mejía VallejoManuel Mejía Vallejo, was a Colombian writer and journalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporary Colombian narrative, characterized by a world of symbols which are little by little being lost in the memory of the mountain.Doctor...
(1923-1998), novelist and poet - Álvaro MutisÁlvaro MutisÁlvaro Mutis Jaramillo is a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist and author of the compendium The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll.-Early life:...
(1923-), poet, novelist, and essayist - Oscar Perdomo GamboaOscar Perdomo GamboaOscar Perdomo Gamboa is a writer born in the city of Ibagué, Colombia. Studied Journalism and a magister in Colombian and Latin American literature. Won the Jorge Isaacs award with the novel Hacia la Auora in 1998, a story about a student who can control other people's dreams. The book was...
(1974-), novelist - Rafael PomboRafael Pombo"Rafael Pombo is one of the great poets of Colombia, and the best exponent of romanticism in the country". Great Encyclopedia of ColombiaJosé Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá...
(1833-1912), poet - Laura RestrepoLaura RestrepoLaura Restrepo is one of the most skilled writers to emerge from Latin America since the days of the Latin American Boom. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1950 and after about 25 years she began to write her first serious works, mainly political columns. Her first fiction novel, Isle of...
(1950-), novelist - José Eustasio RiveraJosé Eustasio RiveraJosé Eustasio Rivera Salas was a Colombian lawyer and poet primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.-Early life:...
(1888-1928), novelist, author of La VorágineLa VorágineThe Vortex is a novel written in 1924 by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera. It is set in the jungles of Colombia during the Rubber boom.... - Daniel Samper PizanoDaniel Samper PizanoDaniel Samper Pizano is a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and prolific writer.-Career:Samper attended the Gimnasio Moderno, where he began writing in the students newspaper El Aguilucho. At the age of 19 he worked for the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo as a reporter...
(1945-), journalist and novelist - José Asunción SilvaJosé Asunción SilvaJosé Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. He is considered one of the founders of Spanish-American Modernism.-Life:...
(1865-1896), poet - Guillermo ValenciaGuillermo ValenciaGuillermo Valencia Castillo was a Colombian poet and translator. He was the father of Guillermo León Valencia , Colombian president during 1962-1966....
(1873-1943), poet and translator - Fernando VallejoFernando VallejoFernando Vallejo Rendón is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life...
(1942-), novelist - José María Vargas VilaJosé María Vargas VilaJosé María Vargas Vila Bonilla . Colombian writer.He was one of the most controversial writers in the beginning of 20th century in the American continent, Jose Maria Vargas Vila characterized by its radical liberal ideals and the consequent critic against the clergy, the conservative ideas and the...
(1860-1933) - Luis Castellanos TapiasLuis Castellanos TapiasLuis Castellanos Tapias was a Colombian attorney , historian, politician, publisher and writer.Castellanos Tapias , published in 1962 a novel that has as its main historical reference the...
, historian, novelist - Andrés López López, author of "El Cartel de los Sapos"