Latin American Authors

Pedro Badrán

Pedro Badrán was born in Magangué (Bolívar). He won the National Short Novel Prize of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá in 2000 with the play El día de la mudanza. He has also published the novel Lecciones de Vértigo (1994) and two storybooks Simulacros de amor (1996) and El lugar difícil (1985). Some of his stories have been included in various anthologies such as Und Traümten vom Leben (And they dreamed of life, Zürich, 2001), Contemporáneos del porvenir (2000), Líneas aéreo (1999), New Colombian tale (1997) and Erzählungen aus Spanisch America: Kolumbien (1997). He was editor in chief of the magazine Cromos, a reporter and editor of the newspaper La Prensa, and a contributor to the magazine Credencial and the newspaper El Espectador.
Hotel Bellavista and other tales of the sea

"Margarita among the pigs"

"Bellavista Hotel and others tales of the sea"

 


- the day of the move

Evelio Rosero

Rosero was born in Bogotá but was raised in Pasto, Andean city, in southern Colombia, where he spent most of his childhood.

He returned to the capital as a teenager; Both his primary and secondary studies were done in Catholic establishments.1 He then pursued a career in Social Communication and Journalism at the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

He began his literary career by publishing stories in the Sunday Readings of El Tiempo and the Sunday Magazine of El Espectador.2 In 1979, at 21 years old, he obtained his first literary recognition -the National Prize for the Governorate of Quindío- for the story Absentees , published by the Institute of Culture in the anthology 17 Colombian stories. Three years later, in Mexico he obtained the Ibero-American Book of Tales Netzahualcóyotl, as well as the short novel La Marcelina, in Valencia, Spain, for Papá is saint and wise. At this point, Rosero travels to Europe, where he resides first in Paris and then in Barcelona.

It begins in the novel with the trilogy First time, consisting of Mateo solo (1984), Juliana los mira (1986) and El incendiado (1988), which won the II Gómez Valderrama Prize for the best novel published in the quinquennium of 1988- 1992

He made books of various literary genres in which e can highlight:
 

- childish story; fight in the park

- novel; The armies 

- novel; Lord who does not know the moon

 

- novel; the float of the bolivar 

among others

Paulo Coelho 

He is one of the most read writers and novelists in the world with more than 200 million books sold in more than 150 countries (224 territories), translated into 81 languages.

Paulo Coelho de Souza was born on August 24 in 1947 in a small family of upper middle class and strong Catholic influence, in Rio de Janeiro. His parents were Pedro Queima Coelho de Souza and Lygia Araripe, engineer and museologist respectively.

His parents pretend that he is an engineer and that is why they try to repress his desire to devote himself to literature, which provokes a great rebellion in Paulo, who begins to disobey family norms.1 It is at seventeen when, due to "immaturity, rebellion, inability to adapt to society, irritability and radical and extremist attitudes, "is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he is subjected to several sessions of electroshock.1

A little later, Paulo began to interact with a theater group and to dedicate himself to journalism.3 At that time the theater was not well seen in certain social levels, that is why his parents returned to intern him.1 When he left, Paulo was still more lost and locked in your world. The family calls another psychiatrist, Dr. Fajardo, who makes a new assessment of the problem: Paulo is not crazy and will not be hospitalized; He will treat about 15 sessions with him. Thirty years after these experiences, Paulo Coelho would write a novel inspired by those years, Veronika decides to die.3

works

- THE DIARY OF A WIZARD

- the Alchemist 

- the devil and Miss Prym 

- Eleven minutes