Oscar Collazos
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
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literature
- Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors Horst Erdmann Verlag for international cultural exchange, Tübingen and Basel 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2
Web links
- Website at Centro Virtual Isaacs: portal cultural del Pacífico colombiano. (es) (accessed May 19, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article about his death at El País (Spanish, accessed May 18, 2015)
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SURNAME | Collazos, Oscar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bahía Solano , Colombia |
DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2015 |
Place of death | Bogotá |