THE LIFE AND WORK OF ÁLVARO CEPEDA SAMUDIO.

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  • Author(s): O'Leary, Gabriela
  • Source:
    Americas. Sep/Oct2010, Vol. 62 Issue 5, p60-63. 4p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Cepeda Samudio, Alvaro; Journalists; Colombian authors; Colombian novelists; Editors
    • Subject Terms:
      Barranquilla (Colombia); Colombia
    • Abstract:
      The article features Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, a Colombian journalist, editor, novelist, short-story writer and member of the Barranquilla Group. He was born on March 30, 1926 to Luciano Cepeda y Roca and Sara Samudio in Barranquilla, Colombia. Cepeda went to school at the Colegio American and the Colegio de Barranquilla. He also studied English in the U.S. on a government grant. Cepeda's best known works include La casa grande, an account of the Banana Massacre of 1928 and Los cuentos de Juana, a parade of ever changing, inconsistent identities.