Fernando Vallejo

Fernando Vallejo was born in Medellín in 1942 and grew up between the city and a farm in the surrounding area. He studied philosophy, then biology, in Bogotá, went to study cinema in Rome, and settled in Mexico City in 1971, where he has lived since. He made three films there before devoting himself to books. A grammarian by vocation, he has written on Spanish syntax and verse, and produced the biographies of two poets of his country, Porfirio Barba-Jacob and José Asunción Silva. He publicly renounced Colombian nationality in 2007 and lives in Mexico, where he is honoured.

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• NovelLa virgen de los sicariosFernando Vallejo · 1994not translated into EnglishLiterature