Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

Álvaro Cepeda Samudio was born in Barranquilla in 1926, studied journalism at Columbia, ran newspapers in his home city and was the Colombian correspondent of an American sports magazine. He was one of the four members of the Barranquilla group, with the painter Alejandro Obregón, the Catalan bookseller Luis Vicens and a young journalist who would become a novelist; he also organised the city's film club. In 1954 he published a story collection marked by Hemingway, then a novel that would be translated into French and English and that was the last book of a Bogotá publishing house. He died in New York in 1972.

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• CinemaThe Blue LobsterLa langosta azulÁlvaro Cepeda Samudio · 1954Cinema