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lvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 September 22, 2013) was an awardwinning Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist and author of the compendium The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. He was awarded the 2002 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.[2]
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lvaro Mutis
Born Died August 25, 1923 Bogot, Colombia September 22, 2013 (aged 90) Mexico City, Mexico Occupation Poet and novelist Genres Fiction

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Early life Literary career Critical reception Awards and honors Sources References External links

Early life
Mutis was born in Bogot[3] and lived in Brussels from the age of two until eleven, where his father, Santiago Mutis Dvila, held a post as a diplomat. They would return to Colombia by ship for summer holidays. During this time Mutis' family stayed at his grandfather's coee and sugar cane plantation, Coello. For lvaro Mutis, the impressions of these early years, his reading of Jules Verne and of Pablo Neruda's Residencia en la tierra, and, especially, contact with "el trpico" (the tropics), are the mainspring of his work. Mutis studied high school in Bogot under the tutelage of the Colombian poet Eduardo Carranza. Although he never nished school, he entered the literary world in Bogot as a poet, a member of the Cntico group that emerged in 1940s. In 1948 Mutis and Carlos Patio published a chapbook of poems called La balanza. He lived in Mexico City since 1956, gaining renown there as the result of Octavio Paz's positive reviews of his work.

Literary career
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Mutis' poetry was rst published in 1948 and his rst short stories in 1978. His rst novella featuring Maqroll, La nieve del Almirante (The Snow of the Admiral) was published in 1986 and gained him popular and critical acclaim. He has received many literary awards, including the Prix Mdicis (France, 1989), Premio Prncipe de Asturias de las Letras (Spain, 1997), Premio Miguel de Cervantes (Spain, 2001), and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (United States, 2002), for The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, a volume collecting all seven novellas about Maqroll the Gaviero. Mutis has combined his career as a writer of poetry and prose with a diverse set of non-literary occupations. Like his protagonist Maqroll, Mutis traveled widely in his professional roles including ve years as Standard Oil's public relations director and over 20 years as sales manager for Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Pictures in their Latin American television divisions. Latin Americans rst became familiar with his voice when he did the narration for the Spanishlanguage television version of The Untouchables. The late Octavio Paz was a champion of Mutis' early poetry. In the 1950s, Mutis spent 15 months in a Mexican prison as a consequence of his handling of money intended for charitable use by Standard Oil. His experience in prison had a lasting inuence on his life and work, and is chronicled in the book Diario de Lecumberri.

Critical reception
Mutis' close friend, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garca Mrquez, called him "one of the greatest writers of our time." [4] Mutis' works are most widely read in Latin America and Europe. Mutis is not well known in the anglophone world, probably because he is not easy to categorize. His literary work is not part of what is commonly understood in the American academy as "Latin American Literature".[5] Maqroll, his most well-known character, is of indeterminate origin, nationality, age and physiognomy. He is not evidently from Latin America and does not represent anything particularly Latin American in character. Maqroll is a solitary traveler who brings a stranger's detachment to his encounters and his lovers; he searches for meaning in a time of violence and inhumanity. In this sense some literary critics has compared Maqroll to Sophocles' Oedipus.[6]

Awards and honors

1988 1997 1997 2001
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Premio Xavier Villaurrutia Premio Principe de Asturias Reina Soa de Poesa Miguel de Cervantes Prize
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2002 Neustadt International Prize for Literature[7]

Sources
Salgado, Mara Antonia (2003). Modern Spanish American poets (Dictionary of literary biography). Sol, Carlos A. (2002). Latin American writers, Supplement I. Burgos, Fernando (2000). Studies in honor of Myron Lichtblau. De Ferdinandy, Miguel (1981). "El estratega: un cuento de lvaro Mutis" Eco, No. 237, p. 266-270. Garcia Aguilar, Eduardo (2000). Celebraciones y otros fantasmas: una biografa intelectual de lvaro Mutis. Barcelona:Casiopea. Fernando Quiroz. "El Reino que estaba para m, conversaciones con lvaro Mutis", Bogot: Ed. norma. 1993. Consuelo Hernndez. lvaro Mutis: Una esttica del deterioro. Caracas: Monte vila, 1997. Consuelo Hernndez. "Del poema narrativo a la novela potica." Tradicin y actualidad de la literatura iberoamericana. P . Bacarisse, editor. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Tomo I. University of Pittsburgh. pp. 101115. Consuelo Hernndez."Razn del extraviado: Mutis entre dos mundos." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. No. 523. Madrid. Consuelo Hernndez.""Los amores de Maqroll en el anverso social." lvaro Mutis. Semana del Autor. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperacin Iberoamericana, 1993. pp. 6778.

References
1. ^ Bethell, Leslie, ed. (27 October 1995). The Cambridge History of Latin America (http://books.google.com/books?id=3NiCQFfSGIkC&pg=PA207). Volume X: Latin America Since 1930, Ideas, Culture, and Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-521-49594-3. Retrieved 2013-10-19. 2. ^ "lvaro Mutis Jaramillo, Colombian writer and poet, dies aged 90 | World news" (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/alvaro-mutis-jaramillo-colombianwriter-dies). theguardian.com. Associated Press. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-23. 3. ^ "Muri el escritor y poeta colombiano lvaro Mutis" [Colombian writer and poet lvaro Mutis has died] (http://www.eluniversal.com/arte-y-entretenimiento/130922 /murio-el-escritor-y-poeta-colombiano-alvaro-mutis). El Universal (in Spanish). 22 September 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-19. 4. ^ Ruy-Snchez, Alberto (2000). "lvaro Mutis y sus rituales gticos de Tierra Caliente". Cuatro escritores rituales. Conaculta. ISBN 970-18-7269-X. 5. ^ Goldman, Francisco (Winter 2001). "Alvaro Mutis" (http://bombsite.com/issues

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/74/articles/2374). Bomb (74). Retrieved 2013-10-19. 6. ^ Alzate Cuervo, Gastn (1994). "La Desesperanza como un Continuum Cultural" [Hopelessness as a Cultural Continuum] (http://academia.edu/1458304 /LA_DESESPERANZA_COMO_UN_CONTINUUM_CULTURAL). Senderos (in Spanish) (Bogot: Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) 5 (27 & 28): 67982. Retrieved 2013-10-19. 7. ^ "Colombian given literary award" (http://oudaily.com/news/2002/oct/18/colombiangiven-literary-award/). The Oklahoma Daily. October 18, 2002. Retrieved November 2, 2013.

External links
Ocial Page (http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/mutis /home.htm) English translation of the poem Tequila from AGNI (https://www.bu.edu /agni/poetry/print/2002/56-mutis.html) Video Documentary 52': lvaro Mutis (http://www.documen.tv/asset /Alvaro_Mutis.html)

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