Jorge Zalamea Borda

Jorge Zalamea Borda, one of the most outstanding writers and journalists in the history of Colombia, has been particularly forgotten by Colombian literary and journalistic historiography. Zalamea is not only valuable for having been an eyewitness to one of the most violent periods in the country's history, but also for having confronted it through fiction and non-fiction. In the pages of this book we will see, then, the stages that Zalamea went through, his travels, his intellectual interests and his political causes. A friend of the famous Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, Zalamea can be positioned as one of the most important intellectuals in Latin America at the time. In the pages of this book we will recover the memory of an invaluable intellectual, not only for Colombia, but for the world.

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Mateo Quintero (Bogotá, 1996). Jornalista e escritor. Tem-se interessado pelo jornalismo político e internacional. No entanto, também tem abordado o estudo da política e da violência na Colômbia a partir da perspetiva da cultura e da literatura. Trabalhou como jornalista e investigador em questões de conflito e violência na região.