The Social Communications program professor at the University of Cauca, Felipe García Quintero, was declared winner of the second 2017 Tomás Vargas Osorio National Poetry Competition, with the work 'Animal de ayer'.

 

The work was described by the jury as an extensive sectioned poem that needs its unity in the contemplation of the landscape where man goes and comes assuming stupor before beauty.

 

His contemplative work exhorts the reader to merge with totally poetic images, that makes 'Animal of Yesterday' a book with a very particular tone in its expressiveness.

 

Felipe García Quintero, was born in Bolívar, south of Cauca, on September 25, 1973. He holds a degree in Literature and Spanish Language from the University of Cauca; Master's Degree in Hispanic Philology, from the Institute of the Language of the Higher Council of Scientific Research CSIC of Madrid (Spain); Master's degree in Culture Studies, Simón Bolívar Andean University, Quito (Ecuador), and PhD in Anthropology, University of Cauca.

 

At present, he is a professor and researcher in the Department of Social Communication, where he has taught, in addition to undergraduate courses, postgraduate seminars for the Doctorate in Education of RudeColombia, Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies in Development and Education, and a Specialization in Pedagogy of Reading and Writing at the University of Cauca.

 

Simultaneously he has carried out work of journalism, cultural promotion and reading animation in different media and for national and international institutions.

 

In 2000 he won the Pablo Neruda Prize in Chile and in 2001, the National Poetry Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Colombia. And from 1998 to the present, he coordinates and directs the Permanent Workshop on Literary Training, held in agreement with the University of Cauca and the Departmental Public Library 'Rafael Maya' Comfacauca, and now under the auspices of the Bank of the Republic and the Network Relata from the Culture Ministry.

 

Among his published books are: Traffic Signals (poetry 1992-1996); Life of nobody (1999); Empty stone (2000); House of bones (selection of poems) (2002); Death, bis (2002); The wound of the beginning (2004); Horizon of dogs. Personal Anthology (2005); Watching the Air (2009); Siega (2011); Horizon of dogs. Personal Anthology (1999-2011); The night shepherd. Personal Anthology (1999-2012); Terral (2013); The piety. Poetry gathered (1994-2013); Tarjo. (Thematic Anthology) (2014); Wind index. Personal Anthology (2014); Dug (to silence). Personal Anthology (2016); And Some Beat (2016).

 

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Social Communication Program

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Email: csocial@unicauca.edu.co