After completing his humanities studies in Bogota, Mario Mendoza obtained a degree in Latin American literature at the Fundación Ortega y Gasset in Toledo.Years of travel followed, from Spain to Israel, first as a student and then as a professor. He returned to Colombia and decided to build a kind of far-reaching body of work to reflect upon the terrible life in the big cities of Latin America.
Far removed from magic realism, he began to weave stories and novels focusing on the struggles of the marginal population trapped in apocalyptic cities where redemption is not possible. A volume of short stories, La travesía del vidente [The Seer’s Voyage], gave him the 1995 National Prize for Literature of the Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo of Bogota. In 2002 Mario Mendoza received the Biblioteca Breve Prize granted by Seix Barral for his novel Satanas. Presently he writes a column for the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. |
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| BY MARIO MENDOZA |
Un viaje por la periferia
NOVEL, MANUSCRIPT |
Buda blues
NOVEL , 2008 |
Los hombres invisibles
NOVEL , 2007 |
Cobro de sangre
NOVEL, 2004 |
Satanas
NOVEL, 2002 |
Relato de un asesino
NOVEL , 2001 |
Scorpio city
NOVEL, 1998 |
La ciudad de los umbrales
NOVEL, 1992 |
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