Jorge Zalamea Borda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jorge Zalamea Borda

Columbian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1905

Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

Date of Death: 10-May-1969

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, translator, literary critic

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jorge Zalamea (8 March 1905 – 10 May 1969) was a Colombian writer, best known for his anti-dictatorship satirical prose works.
He was also an author of poems, dramas, novels, essays.
He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. In 1952, Zalamea fled Colombia to escape the repressive regime of president Laureano Gómez.
Later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he published one of his most influential works, El gran Burudún-Burundá ha muerto, a satirical work denouncing Gómez.