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Manuel Zapata Olivella (Santa Cruz of Lorica, Córdoba, 17 March 1920 - Bogota, 19 November 2004) was a doctor, anthropologist and Colombian writer. == Biography == When he was a boy, his father, the professor Antonio María Zapata Vásquez, moved with his family to Cartagena de Indias. He studied Medicine in the National University of Colombia, in Bogota. In Mexico city, he worked in the Psychiatric Sanatorium of the Dr. Ramírez and afterwards in the Hospital Ortopédico of Alfonso Ortiz Thrown, for the magazine Time and for the magazine Events for All. It argued against his brother Virgil defending to the United States, changing of way to think after a trip to this country where suffered racial discrimination. During his stay in Mexico, he wrote the unpublished novel "Bitter Rice". He published several studies on the cultures of the blacks of Colombia. He taught in several universities of United States, Canada, Centr The main theme of his narrative is the history and the culture of the inhabitants of the Colombian Caribbean, especially the lives of blacks and natives. His more important work is the novel ''Changó'', (1983), an extensive work that proposes like the epic of the afroamericanos, narrating their origins in Africa. His previous novel ''In Chimá is born a saint'' (1964) was a finalist in two contests, the Esso of 1963, in that it was defeated by Gabriel García Márquez with ''The bad hour'' and the Prize of Brief Novel Seix Barral, whose first place was for ''The city and the dogs'', of Mario Vargas Llosa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuel Zapata Olivella」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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