Name Plinio Mendoza | Role Writer | |
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Books The Fragrance of Guava Similar People Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marvel Moreno, Apuleius | ||
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Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza (born 1932) is a Colombian journalist, writer, and diplomat. Mendoza was named in honour to the Roman authors Pliny the Younger and Apuleius.
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- Plinio apuleyo mendoza en a mano limpia parte i am rica tev
- Hacer el regreso del perfecto idiota latinoamericano plinio apuleyo mendoza
- Career
- Short stories
- Novels
- Non fiction
- As co author
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Career
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza born in Tunja, Boyacá in 1932, son of the lawyer and politic Plinio Mendoza Neira, who was witness to the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. He studied Politic Sciences at The Sorbonne in Paris.
He is very well known for his close friendship with the literature Nobel prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. Mendoza and García Márquez spent time in Europe during the early 60s. Mendoza published a biographical novel regarding the life and anecdotes of García Márquez and their circle of friends, poets, and writers during those years in Europe. The book was entitled "The Fragrance of the Guava". Mendoza served as First Secretary of the Colombian Embassy in France, writing newspaper articles for several international publications at the same time. After returning to Colombia in 1959, he became a full-time writer and journalist.