Jaime Jaramillo Escobar

Jaime Jaramillo Escobar was born on 25 May 1932 in Pueblorrico, in Antioquia, and spent his childhood in the villages of the province. Expelled from school, a police inspector in the time of the violence, then an accountant, a tax official and an advertising man, he joined from Cali the movement launched by a former schoolmate and hid behind a pseudonym taken from the number of his identity card. He translated the American writers of his generation and for thirty years ran a poetry workshop in Medellín, where he died in 2021, aged ninety.

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• PoetryLos poemas de la ofensaJaime Jaramillo Escobar · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature