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Álvaro Mutis

Died in 2013

Álvaro Mutis was born in Bogotá in 1923, spent his childhood in Brussels where his father was a diplomat, and left school without a diploma. In charge of public relations for an oil company and then for an airline, he settled in Mexico in 1956 and served fifteen months in prison there over a disputed use of entertainment funds. A poet for thirty years before becoming a novelist, he received the Cervantes Prize in 2001 and died in Mexico City in 2013.

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