Colombia

Soledad Acosta de Samper
Born: 05 MAY 1833 -- Bogotá
Died: 17 MAR 1913
Type: Prose Writer
Achievements:
  1. Founded the magazines La Mujer and La Familia

Fanny Buitrago
Born: ?? ??? 1940 -- Barranquilla, Colombia
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Cali Theatre Festival Prize (1964)
  2. Argentine Summer Season Prize (1965)
  3. Seix Barral Award (runner-up 1970)
  4. UNESCO Best Example of Children's Fiction (second prize 1988)

Tomás Carrasquilla
Born: ?? ??? 1858 -- Santo Domingo, Antioquia, Colombia
Died: ?? ??? 1940 -- Antioquia, Medellín
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Cruz de Boyacá (1935)
  2. Vergara Prize for Literature and Science (1937)

Gabriel García Márquez
Born: 06 MAR 1928 (?) -- Aracataca, Colombia
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Prose writer
Achievements:
  1. Founder and president of Fundación Habeas (1979)
  2. Colombian Association of Writers and Artists Award (1954)
  3. Concurso Nacional de Cuento Short Story Prize (1955)
  4. Chianciano Prize (Italy, 1968)
  5. Foreign Book Prize (France, 1970)
  6. Rómulo Gallegos Prize (Venezuela, 1972)
  7. Neustadt International Prize (1972)
  8. Nobel Prize for Literature (1982) -- One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Oprah's Book Club pick 2004
  9. Los Angeles Times Prize (1988)

Jorge Isaacs
Born: 01 APR 1837 -- Cali, Colombia
Died: 17 APR 1895 -- Ibagüe
Type: Novelist, poet
Achievements:

Alvaro Mutis
Born: 25 AUG 1923 -- Bogotá
Died: ?? ??? ????
Type: Prose writer, poet
Achievements:
  1. National Poetry Prize (Colombia, 1989)
  2. El Aguila Azteca (Mexico, 1989)

Rafael Núñez
Born: 28 SEP 1825 -- Cartagena, Colombia
Died: 18 SEP 1894 -- Cartagena
Type: Poet, journalist, statesman
Achievements:

José Eustasio Rivera
Born: ?? ??? 1888 -- Neiva, Colombia
Died: 01 DEC 1928
Type: Novelist, poet
Achievements:

José Asunción Silva
Born: 26 NOV 1865 -- Bogotá
Died: 24 MAY 1896
Type: Poet, prose writer
Achievements: