Laura Restrepo

Kate Averis (University of Western Australia)

Ed. by Kate Averis, University of Western Australia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 1 Jan 1950

Places

Born in Colombia
Active in Colombia

Activities

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Journalist
Novelist

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Of major national and international standing, Laura Restrepo is a key figure of contemporary Colombian literature, and, more broadly, Latin American and world literatures. In a range of literary texts that straddle fictional and journalistic genres, Restrepo explores Colombia’s often violent recent past as well as Mexican and Argentine history, and more recently, themes of contemporary global significance.

Restrepo was born in 1950 in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, into a middle-class family of abundant cultural and intellectual capital. After studying literature and philosophy at the prestigious private Universidad de los Andes, she taught at the nation’s top-ranking public university, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Driven by her contact with students at the Universidad

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Citation: Averis, Kate. "Laura Restrepo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15119, accessed 14 May 2024.]

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