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Gonzalo Arango
Colombian writer, poet, and journalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gonzalo Arango Arias (Andes, Antioquia, 1931 – Gachancipá, Cundinamarca, 1976) was a Colombian writer, poet, and journalist. In 1958 he led a modern literary and cultural movement known as Nadaism (Nothing-ism),[1][2] inspired by surrealism, French existentialism, beat generation, dadaism, and influenced by the Colombian writer and philosopher Fernando González Ochoa.
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Born | January 18, 1931 Andes, Colombia |
Died | September 25, 1976(1976-09-25) (aged 45) Gachancipá, Colombia |
Arango's life was characterized by large contrasts and contradictions, from an open atheism to an intense spirituality.[3] Those contrasts can be observed between the Primer manifiesto nadaísta (1958), or Prosas para leer en la silla eléctrica (1965), and his last writings.[4]
He was a strong critic of the society of his time and in his works he left many important ideas and proposals.[5]
He was planning to move to London with the British Angela Mary Hickie, but ended his life in a car accident in 1976.[6]