Born in Medellín, Colombia in 1942, Fernando Vallejo studied philosophy and arts in Bogotá, before completing his film studies in Rome. The author of several screenplays, Vallejo has directed a trio of films in Mexico. Vallejo already has eight books to his name, as well as an essay on biology and Darwinism. Vallejo's most recent book, OUR LADY OF THE ASSASSINS (1994), the first one to come out in Europe, was published in France by Belfond in 1997. This disturbing and polemic book revealed its author as one of the most important new Latin American writers to have broken with the celebrated tradition of "magical realism". In Colombia and Mexico, Vallejo's books are more famous than the man himself, so much that he is sometimes called the "literary ghost of Colombia." Interviews and photographs of him are few, and he makes few public or media appearances...
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