Fernando Vallejo





Fernando Vallejo

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born
in Medellin, Colombia
October 24, 1942

gender
male


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Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.

Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittá, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.

Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he prod...more


Average rating: 3.66 · 1,111 ratings · 96 reviews · 22 distinct works · Similar authors
La virgen de los sicarios
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions
La Puta De Babilonia
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
El Desbarrancadero
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
Mi Hermano El Alcalde
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
Los Dias Azules
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
La Rambla Paralela
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
El don de la vida
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
Manualito de imposturología...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005
El Fuego Secreto
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Los Caminos a Roma
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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“…con eso de que aquí, en este país de leyes y constituciones, democrático, no es culpable nadie hasta que no lo condenen, y no lo condenan si no lo juzgan, y no lo juzgan si no lo agarran, y si lo agarran lo sueltan…”
Fernando Vallejo

“…yo no inventé esta realidad es ella la que me está inventando a mí…”
Fernando Vallejo

“…el tiempo barre con todo y las costumbres. Así, de cambio en cambio, paso a paso, van perdiendo las sociedades la cohesión, la identidad, quedan hechas unas colchas deshilachadas de retazos…”
Fernando Vallejo

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