Fernando Vallejo

Fernando Vallejo Rendón ( born October 24, 1942 in Medellín, Antioquia ) is a Mexican ( born in Colombia ) writer, director, writer and biologist.

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Curriculum vitae

Fernando Vallejo grew up in Medellin. He studied philosophy for a year at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. After dropping out, he studied biology at the Universidad Javeriana. He then traveled to Europe and spent a year studying directing in Cinecittà in Rome. After graduating, he traveled to Germany, where he received his first video camera ( in Munich).

He returned to Colombia back to the project to make a film about the violence in Colombia. The Colombian authorities made the production of the movie big trouble, so that Vallejo decided to shoot the film in Mexico. The finished work could not be demonstrated in Colombia because the national television and cinema committee Vallejos film as " provocative violence " panelist and censored. After this incident, Vallejo, decided to leave Colombia.

Since 1971 he has lived in Mexico, where he made ​​two more films on Colombia in the 1970s. In Mexico, he created not only his cinematographic work, but also wrote all his literary oeuvre. Vallejo is the author of a grammar of literary language, three critical volumes of essays on biology, physics, and the Catholic Church, two biographies known Colombian poet. He wrote nine novels. In 2003 he received the prestigious literary prize " Rómulo Gallego " and donated endowed with € 100 000 Price street dogs of Caracas. In April 2007, the government granted him Mexican citizenship. On 8 May 2007, he gave up the Colombian citizenship. In 2011 he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize -.

Quotes

  • " Colombia, Kolumbienchen ... killer country Rabenvater country verhurenbalgte fetus of Spain, whom you bring just to, you lunatic? ". ( The Abyss ).

Works

Narrative works

  • Mi hermano el alcalde (2004)

Autobiographies

  • The Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios ) ( 1994)
  • El río del tiempo (1999). Gathered works by: Blue Days (Los días azules ) ( 1985)
  • El fuego secreto (1987 )
  • Los caminos a Roma (1988 )
  • Años de indulgencia (1989 )
  • Entre fantasmas (1993 )

La Puta de Babilonia (2007)

Biography

  • El mensajero (1991 ), a biography of Porfirio Barba Jacob.
  • Alma en pena, chapolas negras (1995), a biography of José Asunción Silva.

Literature

  • Logoi. Una gramática del lenguaje literario (1983 )

Science

  • La tautologia darwin study ( 1998)
  • Manualito de imposturología física (2005)

Essay

  • La puta de Babilonia (2007)

Filmography

  • Crónica roja (1977 )
  • En la tormenta (1980 )
  • Barrio de campeones (1983 )

Adapted Screenplay

  • The Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios ) (2000 )

Awards

  • Juan Rulfo Prize 2011
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