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Manuel Mejía Vallejo (23 April 1923 – 23 July 1998)[1] was a Colombianwriter andjournalist. The specialist Luís Carlos Molina says that Mejía represents the Andean aspect of the contemporaryColombian narrative, characterized by a world of symbols which are little by little being lost in the memory of the mountain.
Doctor Honoris Causa of theNational University of Colombia. Professor of literature at the National University of Colombia at Medellín, director of the Departmental Printing Press of Antioquia.
Born inJericó, he studied at the Bolivarian Pontifical University and studied painting and sculpture at the Fine Arts Institute of Medellín. He collaborated as a journalist in the newspaper ''El Sol. He was the creator of Grupo La Tertulia withGonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo andJaime Sanín.
Between 1949 and 1957 he was exiled inVenezuela,Guatemala,Honduras, andEl Salvador. In 1978 he was named Director of the Writer's Workshop of the Pilot Public Library ofMedellín. His 1988 novelLa casa de las dos palmas was awarded the VenezuelanRómulo Gallegos Prize. Many of his books were set in his home area.[2]
Vallejo died inEl Retiro.
