Fernando Soto Aparicio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fernando Soto Aparicio

Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist for television and film screenwriter

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1933

Place of Birth: Socha, Boyacá Department, Colombia

Date of Death: 06-May-2016

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, librettist, storyteller

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.
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.