Nicolás Suescún

(Colombia, 1937) is a poet, journalist and writer of short stories and the 'anti-novel' Los cuadernos de N. This is considered a cult book amongst the Colombian youth. He translated works of Flaubert, Shakespeare, Balzac,Yeats, Rimbaud and Blake, and also translated his own work into English. He studied at the universities of Iowa and Berlin and was director of Buchholz, the largest bookstore in Bogota. Suescún was the director of the magazine Eco, and chief editor of the magazine Cromos. He was English teacher and the director of the librairy of the National University of Colombia. As a graphic designer he exhibited in various galeries in places such as Berlin. Suescún has published a number of poetry collections, from which he made a selection for his collection La voz de nadie.
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