Germán Espinosa

Germán Espinosa was born in Cartagena de Indias in April 1938, grew up in a devout family and spent his whole youth in a city where the Inquisition had long sat. A journalist, poet and essayist, he published some twenty books. Three of his novels have appeared in France, in 1995, 1996 and 2000, and it is generally agreed to regard the first as his masterpiece. A learned man, he drew his culture from solitary reading as much as from his years in the press, and was descended through his maternal grandmother from a family of men of letters of the country. He died in Bogotá in October 2007.

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• NovelLa tejedora de coronasGermán Espinosa · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature