Andres Caicedo

Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela (Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, September 29, 1951 - of March 1977) was a Colombian writer born in Cali, Valle del Cauca, the city where he spent most of his life. Despite his premature death, his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature.

Caicedo led different cultural movements in the city like the literary vallecaucana the dialogical group, the Cinema Club of Cali and the Cinema Eye magazine. In 1970 I won the Literary Short Story Competition of Caracas with his work "teeth Riding Hood", which will open the door to an intellectual recognition. In his work he live music! is where ensures that live more than 25 years was a shame, what is seen by many as the main reason of his suicide on March 4, 1977 when he was only 25 years old and had received a copy of the book edited by Argentina one publisher

Son of Carlos Alberto Caicedo and Nellie Estela, the writer Andrés Caicedo vallecaucano was the youngest of four children and the only boy. In 1958 was born his brother Francis Joseph, who would die three years later. By that time, Andrew studied at the Colegio del Pilar, institution to which he entered after passing through the College Pius XII.

Following his misbehavior at school - the same Caicedo has lying outrageously your friends inventing fame and fortune did not , what led to several problems - is transferred in 1964 to another educational institution, the Calasanz College Medellin , the same year he wrote his first story, titled Silence . His academic life after returning back to Cali followed equally turbulent and intermittent : the Colegio Calasanz went to Colegio San Juan Berchmans ( institution that marked much of their literary world ), from which he was expelled , and then to St. Louis in 1966 , instead of also expelled for misconduct ; eventually graduate from high school Camacho Perea College in 1968.

Suicide

True to the idea that to live more than 25 years is insane, Andrew tries to commit suicide twice in 1976, in spite of this write two stories: Soon Night and penniless, and appear the numbers 3, 4 and 5 of the journal Eye the movies. Delivery of the final manuscript Colcultura Long live the music, which would amount to receive a copy edited March 4, 1977;! That day intentionally ingested 60 pills of secobarbital, an act that ends its life.

Works

Most of his writings have been published posthumously. Thanks to the editorial work of some of his friends have come to light books that collect their stories and scripts for theater, as well as critical essays on film. Also, some have been published letters to his mother, sisters and friends, which allow evidence their turbulent emotional states. Some of the most famous collections are:

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