Professor Juan Carlos Pino Correa, from the Department of Social Communication, won the II National Call for Short Novels, an initiative of Cuadernos Negros Publishing in alliance with “El Magazín” from “El Espectador”.

"Winning this award is an incentive to continue writing because writing narrative is a long-term affair, it requires many readings, maturing of the themes, of the narrators, in short, it is an endorsement of a lifelong vocation". This is how the professor of the Social Communication program, Juan Carlos Pino Correa, referred when he won, with the work "Umbral", the II National Call for Short Novels, an initiative of Cuadernos Negros Editorial in alliance with El Magazín de El Espectador.

Pino indicated that this recognition is just one more step in a long path that he hopes to consolidate with works that speak of society and the problems that exist in it and the things and conflicts of the everyday world.

About the novel, he said that 'Threshold' is a story about disagreements, exiles, disappearances, forgetfulness, and in that framework is the context of this country and its violence, as well as the reflection of individual dreams that seek to come true.

According to El Espectador, ‘Umbral’ was chosen from among the 54 competing novels, and was nominated under the pseudonym Juan Almaguer, corresponding to the author Juan Carlos Pino Correa, born in Almaguer, Cauca. The award of the call includes the process of editing the works, together with the dissemination campaign.

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