Manuel Mejía Vallejo

Manuel Mejía Vallejo was born on 23 April 1923 in Jericó, in Antioquia, and grew up in the countryside. Trained at the Pontifical University and the fine arts school in Medellín, where he studied painting and sculpture, he left the country after the riots of 1948 and lived in Venezuela and then in Guatemala, where he sought traces of Indian cultures. On his return, he ran the departmental printing house of his province and taught literature at the National University, which made him a doctor honoris causa. He died on 23 July 1998.

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• NovelEl día señaladoManuel Mejía Vallejo · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature