Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

Bio: lvaro Cepeda Samudio was a Colombian journalist novelist short story writer and filmmaker. Within Colombia and the rest of Latin America he is known in his own right as an important and innovative writer and journalist largely inspiring much of the artistically intellectually and politically active climate for which this particular time and place that of midcentury Colombia has become known.

Born: March 30, 1926 in Ciénaga, Magdalena, Colombia