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1. MARIO
Studied Philosophy and Literature at the
Universidad Javeriana.
Specialized in Hispanic American Literature at the
José Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Spain.
Master's degree in Latin American Literature from
the Universidad Javeriana.
MENDOZA
(1964) Professor, Writer and Journalist
AWARDS
National Literature
Award (1995)
Biblioteca Breve de
Seix Barral Award
(2002)
National Literature
Award granted (2011)
"To me, creating readers
seems to be fundamental
grassroots work in a
country like ours.
It is a form of civil
resistance,"
explains Mendoza.
I am part of the noir genre, which is a shock
genre, and it makes certain types of people
uncomfortable.
The literature I write is not for everyone, it is for
people who are tired and exhausted of lies, who
are on the ropes, fed up with the times we live in.
If we could look at Mario at the age of 18 in a
boarding house in the Quiroga neighborhood and
ask ourselves what options that boy had to become
a Latin American writer there was no chance and yet
he did it with discipline and resistance.
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Mario has touched the hearts of young people
with his novels, revealing the situation of the
country.
"I am very worried, I think that what is coming is a
world that is getting worse and worse," he says
pessimistically, so he hopes to continue writing
to try, somehow, to help this country in decline.
Mario has a loyal and nurtured
group of readers, which makes him
one of the most important writers
of the new generation of Colombian
literature.
"For me reading is an altered sate of consciousness."
"He is one of the few
writers who has the
character to call a spade
a spade."
He is one of the few authors who
has ventured into several literary
genres: novels, essays, comics,
youth literature and graphic
novels.
His books have been translated
into German, Danish, French,
Italian, Portuguese and Arabic.
Degraded realism urban
hyperrealism
dark romanticism
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