Author · Colombia
Jorge Gaitán Durán
Died in 1962
Jorge Gaitán Durán was born in 1924 in Pamplona, in Santander, into a well-off family, and grew up in Cúcuta. He began studying engineering, then switched to law in Bogotá, which he completed in 1947; he was already a film and literary critic at El Tiempo. Prosecuted after the 1948 uprising, he took refuge in Cúcuta, then left for Europe in 1950, kept a travel journal, stayed in Paris and travelled to China and the Soviet Union. In 1955 he founded the magazine Mito, which for seven years published Borges, Sartre and the country's young writers. He died in June 1962 in a plane crash at Pointe-à-Pitre.
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- PoetryAmantesJorge Gaitán Durán · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature