The Vice-Rectory for Culture and Welfare and the Publishing House of the Institution paid tribute to whom is considered one of the most remarkable poets of Latin-America.

His literary work has 200 poems and 12 books.  It contains topics such as childhood, youth, beauty, happiness and death, which he doesn’t handle it with fear but with tranquility.

The Alma Mater awarded an honorary doctorate in Philosophy in 1992 to the poet who is from San Onofre Sucre and who married the payanesa literate, Martha María Arboleda Castrillón.

His work leaves behind everything vintage style and fashion and he is not interested in describing objects of the most tangible reality. Values, ideals and expressive forms that come from tradition and religious beliefs are elements that reinterprets from current needs, to compose a new expressive form.

"I feel grateful to the University of Cauca, where I taught for many years and much joy over the distinction and recognition for the literary work and compilation of my work," he said.

During the same event the launch of the book "The city that never sleeps" by writer Juan Camilo Carrillo Solano, who won the National Award for Arts Education was also made.

"Every night is a danger, every night there is a tragedy, and every night could be your last day. In the big city no body rests, no body sleeps, no body loves.  Awakening is a path to be taken to live day by day, a repeated nightmare maybe, maybe not ... "

The fragment read by the editor from the Publishing House, Luis Guillermo Jaramillo, gives an idea of the novel that had a long journey not only in its edition but also in its publication.

For more information, please contact:

Vice-Rectory for Culture and Welfare
Phone: 8209900, ext. 1133
Email: vicecb@unicauca.edu.co