| 词条 | William Ospina |
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| name=William Ospina | image=William Ospina.jpg |birth_date={{birth date and age|1954|03|02}} |birth_place=Herveo, Tolima |occupation=Writer |nationality=Colombian |awards= -Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1982 -Premio Nacional de Poesía 1992 -Premio Casa de las Américas, Premio de Ensayo Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, 2003 -Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2009 }}William Ospina (2 March 1954) is a Colombian poet, essayist and novelist. He was born in Herveo, Tolima. He won the Romulo Gallegos Prize[1] for his novel El país de la canela, part of a trilogy about the invasion and conquest of South America.[2] LifeWilliam Ospina was born in Herveo, Tolima on 2 March 1954, but his family had to move around the south of the Colombia quite often due to the violence of the time. His father, Luis Ospina, a nurse and musician nurtured in his son a strong passion for Colombian culture "We had no books and home, but we had all the songs".[3] He grew up in Cali where he studied law and political sciences at Santiago de Cali University. He quitted his job and decided to devote to literature. He lived in Europe during 1979 to 1981. When he returned to Colombia he became editor for the Sunday news of La prensa Newspaper in Bogotá (1988 a 1989). We has written essays about Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, León Tolstói, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Las mil y una noches, Alfonso Reyes, Estanislao Zuleta, and William Shakespeare. Literary themesInvasion and colonization of Latin AmericaOspina has written several essays and articles regarding this period, stablishing how valuable the understanding of this events is for the comprehension of Latin-Americans’ identity, social, cultural and political challenges.[4][5] In 2005, he starts a trilogy of semi-historical novels about this time period: Ursúa depicts the life of a young conquistador who was initially loyal to law and justice with time is consumed by greed and turns into a ferocious warrior who kills for power and gold. Most of the historical events narrated were inspired by the XVI century poems by Juan de Castellanos.[6] The second book, El país de la canela, tells the first trip of Francisco de Orellana through the Amazon River and the conquistas of Francisco Pizarro. This novel was awarded with the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 2009.[7] The third book, La serpiente sin ojos, narrates the attempt of Ursúa to repeat Orellana’s trip to discover the country of the Amanzons. The book also recounts the crimes of Lope de Aguirre.[8] Romanticism2015, Ospina publishes his novel El Verano que nunca llegó, where he depicts his literary investigation about the story of Villa Doidati and the events that in 1816 gave birth to the two famous literary works of Frankenstein and The Vampyre.[9] This work differs from his previous woks because of his derive from Latin American history to the description of global historical events with emphasis on European romanticism and its influence to our days.[10] Political viewsHe has openly criticized the ineffectiveness of the Colombian government to protect its people and care for its necessities. He also recriminates the Colombian population for its apathy and lack of strong demands to its government.[11] He has supported the Colombian peace process and on April 9th, 2013, during a national march of over a million people, the Colombian congresswoman Piedad Córdoba read a prayer named Oración por la paz written by the Ospina.[12] He proposes education as a solution for many of the society problems, understanding education not only as school related, but as the example that society and media gives to children. He states that youth must feel empowered enough to take part in their present and be able to change the future of a nation.[13] WorksPoetry
Essays
Novels
References1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/cultura_sociedad/2009/06/090604_2207_premio_gallegos_jrg|title=Premio Gallegos para escritor colombiano|last=Valery|first=Yolanda|date=June 4, 2009|work=BBC News|accessdate=April 1, 2019}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ospina, William}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2009/06/04/actualidad/1244066408_850215.html|title=El colombiano William Ospina gana el Rómulo Gallegos de novela|last=|first=|date=4 June 2009|work=El País|accessdate=April 1, 2019}} 3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.elespectador.com/opinion/luis-ospina-mi-padre-el-cantor|title=Luis Ospina. Mi padre, el cantor|last=Ospina|first=William|date=12 June 2011|work=El Espectador|access-date=5 January 2019}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=¿Dónde está la franja amarilla?|last=Ospina|first=William|publisher=MONDADORI|year=2012|isbn=|location=|pages=}} 5. ^{{Cite book|title=Pa que se acabe la vaina|last=Ospina|first=William|publisher=Planeta|year=2014|isbn=|location=|pages=}} 6. ^{{Cite book|title=Sacred and Imperial Topographies in Juan de Castellanos' Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias|last=Restrepo|first=Luis Fernando|publisher=Bucknell University Press|year=2002|isbn=|location=|pages=}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-5372607|title=Perfil de William Ospina, ganador del Rómulo Gallegos|last=|first=|date=5 June 2009|work=El Tiempo (Colombia)|access-date=6 February 2019}} 8. ^{{Cite book|title=The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560–1|last=Simon|first=Pedro|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2011|isbn=9780511697142|location=|pages=}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2015/06/13/557b1df846163f1c4e8b459e.html|title=La noche que nació Frankenstein|last=|first=|date=13 June 2015|work=El Mundo (Spain)|access-date=31 March 2019}} 10. ^{{Cite book|title=El año del verano que nunca llegó|last=Ospina|first=William|publisher=Literatura Random House|year=2015|isbn=978-958-8894-37-9|location=Bogotá|pages=}} 11. ^{{Cite book|title=¿Dónde está la franja amarilla?|last=Ospina|first=William|publisher=Penguin Random House|year=1997|isbn=978-958-45075-94|location=|pages=}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/nacional/oracion-paz-articulo-415954|title=Oración por la paz|last=Ospina|first=William|date=April 13, 2013|work=El Espectador|access-date=April 1, 2019}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucaldas.edu.co/portal/educacion-para-transformar-el-mundo-william-ospina/|title=Educación para transformar el mundo: William Ospina|last=Ospina|first=Ospina|date=March 25, 2014|website=Universidad de Caldas|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=April 1, 2019}} 7 : 1954 births|Colombian novelists|Male novelists|Colombian male writers|Colombian essayists|Living people|Male essayists |
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