César Uribe Piedrahíta

César Uribe Piedrahíta was born in Medellín in 1897. A surgeon trained at the University of Antioquia, he specialised in parasitology at Harvard, on his return directed the National Institute of Hygiene, taught at the University of Cauca and became its rector. An archaeologist, draughtsman and pioneer of public health, he was little published in his lifetime, but held in high esteem in the literary circles of his country. He left two completed novels and a third unfinished, and died in 1951.

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• NovelToá, narraciones de caucheríasCésar Uribe Piedrahíta · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature