This document provides biographical information on several prominent Colombian authors and their works. It discusses novelists like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, known for his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and Juan Gabriel Vasquez. It also covers poets like Jose Asuncion Silva and his melancholy works. Children's literature is represented through Jose Rafael de Pombo and the stock characters he created like "El renacuajo paseador". The document aims to showcase some of the most notable figures and classics in Colombian literature across genres.

1. COLOMBIA

2. COLOMBIA
ETYMOLOGY
- Derived its name from the lastname of Christopher
Columbus (known for his 1492 discovery of the “New World”)

3. COLOMBIA

5. Capital Bogota
Official Language Spanish
Area 1,141,748 km2
Population (July
2015)
48,219,827
Currency peso
Climate very warm and
tropical on the
coast and in the
north, with a
rainy season from
May to November
Dialing Code +57

16. EVELIO ROSERO
- was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on 20 March 1958
- He is a Colombian writer and journalist, who won in 2006
the Tusquets Prize.

17. THE ARMIES
(The Armies) is a novel of a country torn apart by war. Ismael, a retired old
school teacher and his wife, Otilia, live morosely and modestly in the town of
San José. Ismael loves to spy on his neighbor's wife, making his own wife to
feel embarrassed, and there is a sense of spree on everything going on until
some family members begin to disappear and fear takes over the inhabitants
of San José. One morning, after his usual walk, Ismael finds out that some
soldiers of God knows that armies had taken away his neighbors. His wife had
been looking for him and unsuccessfully he tries to find her instead. The
fighting intensifies from all sides, and while the citizens of San José decide to
run away and join the hordes of displaced peasants of Colombia, Ismael
chooses to stay in the blasted and ghost township.

18. MATEO SOLO
Mateo Solo is a story about a child confined in his own home. Mateo knows
about the outside world for what he sees through the windows. It is a story of
dazzling confinement, where sight is the main character: his sister, his aunt, his
nanny all play their own game while allowing Mateo to keep his hope for
identity in plotting his own escape.

19. LAURA RESTREPO
(born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1950)
- a Colombian author who began writing what were mainly
political columns in her mid-twenties

20. Story of a Fascination
(Historia de un Entusiasmo)
This novel is Restrepo’s experience during the government/guerrilla conflict.
This novel speaks of President Belisario Betancur and her own struggle with
death threats and 5 years of exile. Because she was involved in negotiating
peace between the two groups in 1983, it gives a firsthand account of what
was going on and how everyone was going to change the world.

21. Isle of Passion
(Isla de la pasión)
Set in the early 1900s during the Mexican Revolution and World War I, the
novel narrates the story of Ramón Arnaud, his wife Alicia, and many soldiers
from the Mexican military who making their lives on small and barren Clipperton
Island in the Pacific. The group starts their lives on the island until the
revolution and World War I leave them without any supplies. Bad weather
happens and Alicia and Tirsa, a lieutenant’s wife, are left to lead the survivors.
Restrepo based this novel of a true story.

22. JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973) is a Colombian writer
- best known for his novel The Sound of Things Falling,
originally published in 2011.

23. The Informants (Los informantes)
The Informers is narrated by Gabriel Santoro, who shares his father's name.
Several years earlier, in 1988, the younger Santoro had published a book
called A Life in Exile, about the life of a Jewish woman -- a family friend -- who
had come to Colombia from Germany as a girl before World War II.

24. The Sound of Things Falling
The Sound of Things Falling is the story of a law professor named Antonio Yammara, who
narrates the storyl. Scenes switch between the 1990s Bogotá (the present), where everything
is falling apart as the result of the drug wars, and the past where the drug trade seem
interwoven into everyone's lives.
In the present, Antonio and his friend Ricardo Laverde are shot in a drive-by shooting. Ricardo
dies and Antonio is severely wounded. Antonio became racked with fear causing his marriage
to Aura to crumble. He is contacted by Ricardo's daughter Maya, who tells her estranged
father's story: he was a pilot who was caught smuggling drugs into the United States and given
a 19-year jail sentence. Maya's mother had returned to her native United States when Maya
turned 18, and died in a plane crash when attempting to visit Maya and Ricardo after he got out
of jail. As the story progresses, Antonio and Maya are drawn together, united by their tragic
pasts.

25. JORGE ISAACS
- Jorge Isaacs Ferrer (April 1, 1837–April 17, 1895)
- was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier.
- His only novel, María, became one of the most notable
works of the Romantic movement in Spanish-language
literature

26. Maria
It is written between 1864 and 1867. It is a costumbrist novel representative of
the Spanish romantic movement. It may be considered a precursor of the
criollist novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Latin America.
Despite being Isaacs' only novel, María is considered one of the most important
works of 19th-century Spanish American literature. Alfonso M. Escudero
characterized it as the greatest Spanish-language romantic novel. The romantic
style of the novel has been compared to the one of Chateaubriand's Atala.
Notable are the description of the landscape and the artistic style of the prose.

27. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
- (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)
- was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer,
screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as
Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

28. In Evil Hour
(La Mala Hora)
In Evil Hour takes place in a nameless Colombian village. Someone has been
placing satirical pasquinades about the town, outlining the locals' shameful
secrets. Some dismiss these as common gossip. However, when a man kills
his wife's supposed lover after reading of her infidelity, the mayor decides that
action is called for. He declares martial law and sends soldiers (who are
actually armed thugs) to patrol the streets. He also uses the 'state of unrest' as
an excuse to crack down on his political enemies.

29. One Hundred Years of Solitude
(Cien años de soledad)
It is about multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio
Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.
The widely acclaimed book, considered by many to be the author's masterpiece, was first
published in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven
languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. The magical realist style and
thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important,
representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which
was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban
Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.

30. POETRY
JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA
(Colombia, 1865–1896)
Most celebrated poet was born in Bogotá, into a rich
family, and after a pampered although unhappy childhood,
led a tormented life. He was additionally morbidly
sensitive and this, along with his difficult life, inspired his
melancholy poetry, collected and published after his
death.

31. POEMS
 For the Reader’s Ear
 Chrysalises
 Butterflies
 Nocturnes III
 Dusk
 Childhood
 The Woodsmen of San Juan
 Ars Poetica

32. For The Reader's Ear
No, that was not passion,
It was the vague tenderness
Inspired by a sickly child,
Lang syne, and moon pale nights.
The spirit sings only
When the heart is moved,
When, shaken by love’s power, it trembles,
Broods, draws back, says not a word.
True passion might in fact
Have been…these pages,
That were they written in happier times
Would have appeared as tears, not verses.

33. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo
(November 7, 1833 – May 5, 1912)
Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military
school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled
to the United states of America as Secretary of the
Legation in Washington. After completing his diplomatic
assignment, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in
New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from
the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition.

34. Some of the characters most recognized in Colombian children's literature and the popular
imaginary are the stock characters created by Rafael Pombo, which are often found
in nursery rhymes, familiar folk tales and in the textbooks for elementary school.
"El renacuajo paseador“
(The tripping tadpole also known
as Rin Rin the tadpole)
"Pastorcita“
(Sheep keeper girl)
"El Gato bandido“
(The bandit cat, also
known as Michin the
cat)
"La pobre Viejecita"
(Poor old Lady)
"Simón el Bobito“
(Little dumb Simon)

35. That In All Things
God May Be
Glorified!