Jorge Zalamea

Jorge Zalamea was born in Bogotá in 1905, left the lycée for the theatre and went very young to Spain, where he became close to the poets of his generation. On his return, he was a diplomat, a magazine editor and a translator: it was he who put the great poems of Saint-John Perse into Spanish. He left the country for political reasons at the beginning of the fifties and lived in exile. Crowned with a major international prize at the end of his life, he died on 10 May 1969, and his unpublished poems appeared six years later.

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• NarrativeEl gran Burundún-Burundá ha muertoJorge Zalamea · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature