1. William Ospina was born on 2 March 1954 and is a Colombian poet, essayist and novelist.
17 Facts About William Ospina
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William Ospina won the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel, part of a trilogy about the invasion and conquest of South America.
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William Ospina was born in Herveo, Tolima, on 2 March 1954, but his family had to move around southern Colombia quite often due to the violence of the time.
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William Ospina grew up in Cali where he studied law and political sciences at Santiago de Cali University.
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William Ospina quit his job and decided to devote himself to literature.
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William Ospina has written essays about Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, One Thousand and One Nights, Alfonso Reyes, Estanislao Zuleta, and William Shakespeare.
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In 2005, William Ospina began a trilogy of semi-historical novels about this time period:.
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In 2015, William Ospina published his novel, where he depicts his literary investigation into the history of Villa Doidati and the events that in 1816 gave birth to the two famous literary works Frankenstein and The Vampyre.
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The story travels back and forth in time, describing Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and Mary Shelly's life events and William Ospina's visit to sites connected to these characters.
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William Ospina ponders how the past and present intertwine and how places seem to be meant to be in some people's lives.
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William Ospina has openly criticized the ineffectiveness of the Colombian government in protecting its people and caring for their necessities.
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William Ospina has supported the Colombian peace process and on April 9,2013, during a national march of over a million people, the Colombian congresswoman Piedad Cordoba read a prayer named written by Ospina.
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William Ospina proposes education as a solution for many societal problems, understanding education not only as school-related, but as the example that society and media sets for children.
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William Ospina's work invites people to question their history, politics, social interactions and the handling of natural resources.
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William Ospina has been praised by icons of Latin American literature.
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William Ospina's work has been used by universities and academic groups to analyze political history of Colombia and other countries.
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William Ospina has represented Colombia in international literary events, including Panama's book fair in 2017 and the Dominican Republic's book fair in 2019.