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Santiago Cepeda

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Language
  
Spanish

Nationality
  
Colombian


Name
  
Santiago Cepeda

Role
  
Poet


Born
  
31 March 1986 (age 37) Bogota D.C., Colombia (
1986-03-31
)

Occupation
  
Writer, journalist, literature teacher

Notable awards
  
National Poetry Award for Unpublished Work 2010, Embassy of Spain-Colsanitas Young Novel Award 2010.

Education
  
Pontifical Xavierian University, New York University

2014 | KJCC Poetry Series | Lectura de Piedad Bonnett e Iván Oñate


Santiago Cepeda (Bogotá, 1986) is a Colombian poet and novelist.

He received his bachelor's degree in Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in 2010. Also in 2010, Cepeda won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Obra Inédita (National Poetry Award for Unpublished Work) with the book Arder no ha sido luz (to Burn has Not Been Light). Later that year, Cepeda obtained the first place of the Premio de Novela Joven Embajada de España-Colsanitas (Embassy of Spain-Colsanitas Young Novel Award) for the novel Revelado (Blown up), . He was given a Fulbright scholarship in 2014 to do an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU. He returned to Bogotá in 2015. Since then he has been working as a creative writing teacher for several universities.

References

Santiago Cepeda Wikipedia