In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mejía and the second or maternal family name is Vallejo.
Manuel Mejía Vallejo (23 April 1923 – 23 July 1998)[1] 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.
Manuel Mejía Vallejo
Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Colombia. Professor of literature at the National University of Colombia at Medellín, director of the Departmental Printing Press of Antioquia.
Born in Jericó, he studied at the Bolivarian Pontifical University and studied painting and sculpture at the Fine Arts Institute of Medellín. He collaborated as a journalist in the newspaper ''El Sol. He was the creator of Grupo La Tertulia with Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo and Jaime Sanín.
Between 1949 and 1957 he was exiled in Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. In 1978 he was named Director of the Writer's Workshop of the Pilot Public Library of Medellín. His 1988 novel La casa de las dos palmas was awarded the Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Many of his books were set in his home area.[2]
La casa de las dos palmas (1988), Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Shown on Colombian television.
Los abuelos de la cara blanca (1991)
Short storiesedit
Tiempo de sequía (1957)
Cielo cerrado (1963)
Cuentos de zona tórrida (1967)
Las noches de las vigilias (1975)
Otras historias de Balandú (1990)
Sombras contra el muro (1993)
La venganza y otros relatos (1995), Classic Colombian short story.
La muerte de Pedro Canales
Riña de cuatro gallos
Que despierten sus sueños
El hombre vegetal
Aquí yace alguien
El milagro
Los julianes
La guitarra
El cielo cerrado
Miedo
Una canoa bajo el Orinoco
Palo caido
El sitio del agua
Books of poetryedit
Prácticas para el olvido (1977)
El viento lo dijo (1981)
Memoria del olvido (1990)
Soledumbres (1990)
Referencesedit
^"Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75". AP News. 24 July 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^Richard Young; Odile Cisneros (18 December 2010). Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. p. 296. ISBN978-0-8108-7498-5.
Bibliographyedit
TRONCOSO, Marino. Proceso creativo y visión del mundo en Manuel Mejía Vallejo. Un acercamiento al proceso cultural antioqueño. Bogotá, Procultura, 1986.
VARÓN, Policarpo. Manuel Mejía Vallejo. Bogotá, Procultura, 1989.
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