Artieda 2011

JOSe LA COLINA am of exile as it is a country, and Spain is a little for me, Spain. Jose de la Colina. THE voice of a child of exile Jose de la Colina is one of the younger exile writers, since he was a child on dates of the war provoked by the military rebellion of general Franco. His first books of stories we highlight look, grey horse (1959) and the fight with the Panther. In the first six short stories accompanied gives title to the book, and in all of them we offer offer minor plot situations that relate to a fragment of life. In the second, all the stories revolve around the conquest of love and the world that symbolic struggle which is referenced by the title. Of the Hill is one of the writers renovators and more attentive to the modern narrative resources, between the Spanish exile. His prose – said Octavio Paz – is one of the best in Mexico.

The Narrator, editor and film Jose de Hill critic born in Santander on 29 March 1934. At the end of the Spanish war he embarks with his family a long exile to France, Belgium, Santo Domingo, Cuba and, finally, Mexico where he lives since 1940. I learned to read in the island of Santo Domingo – tells us the writer – and my teacher was my father taught me how to read in a copy of Platero y yo by Juan Ramon Jimenez. In Mexico he studied primary education at the Colegio Madrid and studied only two more years. At the age of fifteen he collaborates in radio programmes. Later part of the lap, Revista Mexicana and Plural magazines editorial boards. For twenty years he was director of the Cultural weekly of the prestigious newspaper news.