Dos concursos literarios: Medellín, 2003

Authors

  • Álvaro Pineda Botero Universidad EAFIT

Keywords:

Colombian novel, literary contests, literary tendencies, exile, multicuturalism, historical novel

Abstract

This article presents two literary contests that took place in Medellín in 2003. It analyses in detail the two winning novels and advances general commentaries on the rest of the 58 manuscrits presented to the juries. In this sense, the corpus is a good sample of the new tendencies of the Colombian literature. One of the winning novels deals with colombians forced to move to the United States around 1980, due to the traffic of narcotics and the violence related to it. The second is a Historical Novel related with the life in Medellín in the second parte of the XIX Century.

Author Biography

  • Álvaro Pineda Botero, Universidad EAFIT
    Ph.D. por Suny at Stony Brook, New York. Profesor Investigador de la Universidad EAFIT. Ha publicado Del mito a la postmodernidad, la novela colombiana de finales del siglo XX (1990), La fábula y el desastre, novela colombiana 1650 - 1931 (1999) y Juicios de Residencia, novela colombiana 1934 - 1985 (2001).

References

Murillo, José Ignacio, Mayte, no bailes, (2003) Medellín, Fundación Cámara de Comercio de Medellín para la Investigación y la Cultura, 334 págs.

Pöppel, Hubert, La novela policíaca en Colombia, (2001) Medellín, Editorial Universidad de Antioquia.

Porras Vallejo, José Libardo, Fuego de amor encendido, (2003) Medellín, Secretaría de Cultura Ciudadana, Alcaldía de Medellín, 256 págs.

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Published

2004-05-19

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How to Cite

Pineda Botero, Á. (2004). Dos concursos literarios: Medellín, 2003. Co-herencia, 1(1), 71-85. https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/626