President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Role Writer Children Alberto Zalamea Costa | President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Name Jorge Borda Spouse Amelia Costa (m. 1928) | |
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Preceded by German Arciniegas Angueyra Succeeded by Absalon Fernandez de Soto Died May 10, 1969, Bogota, Colombia | ||
SUEÑO DE LAS ESCALINATAS PARTE COLOMBIA POR JORGE ZALAMEA BORDA
Jorge Zalamea (8 March 1905 – 10 May 1969) was a Colombian writer, best known for his anti-dictatorship satirical prose works. He was also an author of poems, dramas, novels, essays. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967.
In 1952, Zalamea fled Colombia to escape the repressive regime of president Laureano Gomez. Later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he published one of his most influential works, El gran Burudun-Burunda ha muerto, a satirical work denouncing Gomez.
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