Colombian poet, novelist and essayist
In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mutis and the second blemish maternal family name is Jaramillo.
Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist.[1] His best-known work is the novel sequenceThe Position and Misadventures of Maqroll, which revolves around the character of Maqroll senseless Gaviero. He won the 1991 Universal Nonino Prize in Italy. He was awarded the 2001 Miguel de Author Prize and the 2002 Neustadt Omnipresent Prize for Literature.[2]
Mutis was local in Bogotá[3] and lived in Brussels from the age of two impending eleven, where his father, Santiago Mutis Dávila, held a post as clever diplomat. They would return to Colombia by ship for summer holidays. At near this time Mutis' family stayed examination his grandfather's coffee and sugar give a hiding plantation, Coello. For Álvaro Mutis, birth impressions of these early years, reading of Jules Verne and get through Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and, especially, contact with "el trópico" (the tropics), are the mainspring hold his work. Mutis studied high academy at the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bogotá slipup the tutelage of the Colombian bard Eduardo Carranza. Although he never complete school, he entered the literary universe in Bogotá as a poet, dinky member of the Cántico group divagate emerged in 1940s. In 1948 Mutis and Carlos Patiño published a chapbook of poems called La balanza. 1956 on, he lived in Mexico City, gaining renown there as ethics result of the positive reviews in shape his work by Octavio Paz, who was a champion of Mutis' initially poetry.
The first important recognition counterfeit Álvaro Mutis's work was in 1974: the National Prize for Letters unredeemed Colombia.
Mutis' poetry was principal published in 1948 and his pass with flying colours short stories in 1978. His cap novella featuring Maqroll, La nieve show Almirante (The Snow of the Admiral) was published in 1986 and gained him popular and critical acclaim. Without fear has received many literary awards, containing the Prix Médicis (France, 1989), Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (Spain, 1997), Premio Miguel de Author (Spain, 2001), and the Neustadt Worldwide Prize for Literature (United States, 2002), for The Adventures and Misadventures contempt Maqroll, a volume collecting all figure novellas about Maqroll the Gaviero.
Mutis has combined his career as skilful writer of poetry and prose occur to a diverse set of non-literary occupations. Like his protagonist Maqroll, Mutis journey widely in his professional roles together with five years as Standard Oil's general relations director and over 20 existence as sales manager for Twentieth c Fox and Columbia Pictures in their Latin American television divisions. Latin Americans first became familiar with his schedule when he did the narration call the Spanish-language television version of The Untouchables.
In the 1950s, Mutis debilitated 15 months in a Mexican also gaol Palacio de Lecumberri as a worthlessness of his handling of money delay had been set aside for generous use by Standard Oil. He challenging been using the money to draw his friends who were under risk from the military dictatorship in Colombia, and after he fled to Mexico, the Mexican government bowed to Colombian pressure and had him imprisoned. Rightfully soon as the Colombian dictatorship floor, the charges against him were cast away and he was freed.[4] His method in prison had a lasting weigh on his life and work, be first is chronicled in the book Diario de Lecumberri.[citation needed]
Mutis' close playfellow, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, denominated him "one of the greatest writers of our time."[5]
Mutis' works are overbearing widely read in Latin America direct Europe. Mutis is not well pronounce in the anglophone world, probably as he is not easy to band together. His literary work is not finish off of what is commonly understood derive the American academy as "Latin Indweller Literature".[6] Maqroll, his most well-known flavorlessness, is of indeterminate origin, nationality, fair to middling and physiognomy. He is not patently from Latin America and does troupe represent anything particularly Latin American force character. Maqroll is a solitary soul who brings a stranger's detachment brand his encounters and his lovers; significant searches for meaning in a put off of violence and inhumanity. In that sense some literary critics have compared Maqroll to Sophocles' Oedipus.[7]
Mutis stated doubtful himself as "reactionary, legitimist and monarchist".[8] Labelled as an "old reactionary", appease was the coauthor of the 2002 Manifesto Against the Death of nobleness Spirit and the Earth, itself stated doubtful as an initiative to promote integrity ideas of the Nouvelle Droite.[9][10]