Oscar Collazos

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Oscar Collazos (* 1942 in Bahía Solano in the Departamento del Chocó ; † May 17, 2015 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian writer and journalist .

Life

He grew up in Bahía Solano and Buenaventura and studied sociology in Bogotá . After stays in Paris and Cuba , he worked for several Colombian newspapers. For El Tiempo , El Espectador , Occidente and El País, among others . In the 1970s he headed the Cuban branch of the Casa de las Américas . From 1977 to 1987 he lived in West Berlin . Before returning to Colombia in 1990, he worked for the EFE news agency from 1988 to 1989 .

Collazo's literary work consists of several one-act plays , volumes of short stories and novels. His piece El soldado Paz que nunca fue a la guerra was awarded first prize at the Festival Nacional de Arte in 1966. Thematically, he circles around the social and psychological problems of the Colombian workforce.

Works

  • El verano también moja las espaldas (1966)
  • Son de máquina (1968)
  • Esta mañana del mundo (1970)
  • Cuentos (1970)
  • Crónica de un tiempo muerto (1975)
  • Los días de la paciencia (1976)
  • Memoria compartida (1978)
  • Todo o nada (1979)
  • Jóvenes, pobres amantes (1983)
  • Valley como el fuego fatuo (1986)
  • Fugas (1988)
  • Las trampas del exilio (1992)
  • Adiós a la virgen (1994)
  • Morir con papá (1997)
  • La ballena varada (1997)
  • La modelo asesinada (1999)
  • El exilio y la culpa (2002)
  • Rencor (2006)

literature

  • Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors Horst Erdmann Verlag for international cultural exchange, Tübingen and Basel 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article about his death at El País (Spanish, accessed May 18, 2015)