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Afro-Colombian intellectual Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2004) is known throughout Latin America as the “Dean of Black Literature” and is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important Afro-Hispanic novelists. He was also a noted Colombian anthropologist, folklorist, physician, playwright and screenwriter; his work to document and preserve the history and culture of Afro-Colombia through oral history, television, radio, and literature is legendary.

Zapata Olivella was born in Lorica, in the municipality of Córdoba, in northern Colombia, on March 17, 1920. He spent his early childhood in this rural town before moving to Cartagena with his family in 1927, where he attended school through his first year of medical preparation. During those formative years, Zapata Olivella developed many of the interests that shaped his intellectual inquiries. Thanks to a richly diverse family background, he became deeply committed to the study and promotion of Afro-Hispanic culture in the Americas. His parents, Antonio María Zapata and Edelmira Olivella, were, respectively, a mulato (of European and African descent) and a mestiza (of Zenúe Indian and Spanish descent) who managed to instill in their children a sense of pride and commitment to the tri-ethnic population of Colombia; Zapata Olivella and his six brothers and sisters all became important public figures in Colombia’s academic and artistic circles.

Education was a strong value in the Zapata Olivella household. In fact, the family moved to Cartagena so that Antonio María could attend the Universidad de Cartagena; he was the first black Colombian to graduate from the institution. Accordingly, Manuel Zapata Olivella moved to the capital in 1939 to pursue medical studies at the Universidad de Bogotá. He graduated in 1949, having taken a leave of absence between 1943 and 1944 to travel abroad. During the hiatus between his first and second periods of medical school, Zapata Olivella traveled extensively th

Spanish poet and literary critic

Luis García Montero is a Spanish poet, literary critic and academic. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.

Early life and education

Descended from a granadina family that was very active in the community, Luis García Montero was born in Granada, the son of Luis García López and Elisa Montero Peña.

He studied at the Colegio Dulce Nombre de María - PP.Escolapios in Granada. As a teenager, he met Spanish poet Blas de Otero. He was a fan of equestrian sports.

García Montero studied philosophy and literature at the University of Granada, where he was a student of Juan Carlos Rodríguez Gómez, a social literature theorist. He received his masters in 1980 and a doctorate in 1985, with a thesis about Rafael Alberti, "La norma y los estilos en la poesía de Rafael Alberti" ("The norm and styles of Rafael Alberti's poetry"). He maintained a great friendship with Alberti, a poet of the Generation of '27, and prepared a compilation of all his works of poetry.

Career

García Montero began to work as an associate professor at the University of Granada in 1981. He received the Premio Adonáis de Poesía in 1982 for El jardín extranjero. He created a memoir of his studies in 1984, El teatro medieval. Polémica de una inexistencia (Medieval theatre. Controversy of an inexistence).

He became linked to the poetic group La Otra Setimentalidad ("The Other Sentimentality"). The group's first book of contemporary Spanish poetry, published in 1983, used this name. Poets Javier Egea and Álvaro Salvador were also members. The poetics of the group was reflected in this short book, and in lesser part in the manifestoManifiesto albertista (1982) by García Montero and Egea. Their personal trajectory began widening in what would later become known as poesía de la experienc