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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Tomas Carrasquilla, Manuel Uribe Angel, Hector Abad Faciolince, Nicolas Gomez Davila, Maria Luisa Piraquive, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, Mario Laserna Pinzon, Santiago Perez de Manosalbas, Jose Fernandez Madrid, Julio Jimenez, Daniel Samper Pizano, Sergio Velez, Andres Useche, Eduardo Lemaitre, Humberto De la Calle, Jose Manuel Marroquin, Jose Eustasio Rivera, Jose Maria Samper, Belisario Betancur, Luis Castellanos Tapias, Hernando Calvo Ospina, Felix Angel, Fernando Ponce de Leon, Juan B. Gutierrez, German Castro Caycedo, Regina 11, Jimena Romero, Manuel de Jesus Andrade Suarez, Hector Rojas Herazo, Eduardo Caballero Calderon, Boris de Greiff, Jorge Garcia Usta, Virginia Vallejo, Manuel Mejia Vallejo, Luis Lopez de Mesa, German Espinosa, David Sanchez Juliao, Claudia Rueda, Orlando Mejia Rivera, Zacarias Reyan, German Arciniegas, Oscar Perdomo Gamboa, Guzman Quintero Torres, Jorge Franco, Luis Carlos Restrepo, List of Colombian writers, Hernando Urriago Benitez, Anabel Torres, Baldomero Sanin Cano, Angela Becerra, Santiago Gamboa, Alfonso Carvajal, Jorge Zalamea, Juan Gossain, Adolfo Leon Gomez. Excerpt: Tomas Carrasquilla Naranjo (1858 - 1940) was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker of the Ministry of Public Works. He was an avid reader, and one of the most original Colombian literary writers, greatly influencing the younger generation of his time and later generations. Carrasquilla was little known in his time, according to Federico de Onis, a scholar of Carrasquilla's works. It was only after 1936, when he was already 68 years old, when he was awarded with the National Prize of Literature, that Carrasquilla got a national recognition. The Colombian...
