Fernando Soto Aparicio Explained

Birth Date:1933 10, df=y
Birth Place:Socha, Boyacá, Colombia
Death Place:Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Nationality:Colombian
Genre:Novels, books of poems, short stories, children's literature, essays, plays and scripts for film and television
Notableworks:"The rebellion of the rats", "while rains", "journey to the past", "Word of fire", "road walking", "demonia", "jasmine naked", "words to a girl", "The color of the wind"
Awards:Selecciones Lengua Española Prize, Casa de las Américas Prize, City of Murcia Prize

Fernando Soto Aparicio (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter. He was born in Socha, in the Department of Boyacá. Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in Santa Rosa de Viterbo. He is remembered for the novel The rebellion of the rats.[1] After several decades as a professor at various universities in the country, in 1961 he was exalted with the prize Selecciones Lengua Española, in 1970 he received the Casa de las Américas Prize, and a year later, the prize City of Murcia. In total, he wrote about 70 literary works, among them novels, poems, books of short stories, as well as theatre plays.[2]

Literary works

The works of Fernando Soto Aparicio explore society in all its facets possible to portraying the relationship of individuals with the powers established (religious, legal, economical, military). Among his prolific work there are novels, books of poems, short stories, children's literature, essays, plays and scripts for film and television. Among them are:

Novels
Poetry
Short story
Children's literature
Other
Compilations, selections, anthologies

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography of Fernando Soto Aparicio (1933-VVVV). thebiography.us. 4 May 2016.
  2. Web site: Literatura colombiana: Muere el escritor colombiano Fernando Soto Aparicio - Actualidad - Caracol Radio. Caracol Radio. 2 May 2016. Caracol Radio. 4 May 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160503115037/http://caracol.com.co/radio/2016/05/02/nacional/1462200667_938946.html. 3 May 2016.