12 Facts About Gonzalo Arango

Gonzalo Arango Arias was a Colombian writer, poet, and journalist.

Gonzalo Arango was a strong critic of the society of his time and in his works he left many important ideas and proposals.

Gonzalo Arango was planning to move to London with the British Angela Mary Hickie, but ended his life in a car accident in 1976.

Gonzalo Arango was born in Andes, a town of the Antioquian South-Eastern region in 1931, in a period known in Colombia as the liberal government that had to face the Great Depression.

Gonzalo Arango was the last son of the 13 children of Francisco Gonzalo Arango and Magdalena Arias.

Gonzalo Arango utterly disliked what he saw: the young poet thin and yellow, the pile of acid bones bitterly hairless, giving himself to write a novel.

In Felipe Restrepo David words, -a studious of his work-, Gonzalo Arango stands out for a literature of ideas, for a narrative thought.

Young Gonzalo Arango was in those days a Rojas supporter, joining the Movimiento Amplio Nacional - MAN, composed of artists, writers, and young intellectuals.

Gonzalo Arango started in 1957 to give form to the Nadaism ideas, that were expressed in the Primer Manifiesto nadaista, published in Medellin in 1958.

Gonzalo Arango tried to enlight the future upon the ruins, and decided to rise as a rebel against the horrible dullness.

Gonzalo Arango was a journalist and he participated in different newspapers and magazines within his country: El Tiempo, El Espectador, El Siglo, Nueva Prensa, Cromos Magazine, and Corno Emplumado and Zona Franca.

Gonzalo Arango published the Nadaism magazine and the anthology of 13 Nadaist poets.