Tomás Carrasquilla

Tomás Carrasquilla, born in Santo Domingo in Antioquia in 1858, broke off his law studies when the civil war of 1877 closed the university and never returned to the lecture hall. Back in his village, he lived by various trades, tailor, court clerk and then municipal judge, and read whatever came to hand. A short story written to gain admission to a literary society of his province made him known in 1890; a filmmaker from his country would bring it to the screen a century later. He was the first in his country to live entirely for literature, and died in 1940.

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• NovelFrutos de mi tierraTomás Carrasquilla · 1896not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain