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FERNANDO BOTERO ANGULO

• Fernando Botero is an icon of Latin American culture. Born on April 19, 1932 in Medellín, Antioquia. From childhood he showed a certain interest in painting and bullfighting, that is how his first work, a watercolor by a bullfighter, was born.
• Visceral and honest, Botero has always stood out for expressing what he thinks: as a young man he was expelled from the Lyceum where he studied for publishing an article in the local newspaper, "El Colombiano" with the title "Picasso and nonconformism in art". The article was added to caricatures with nude that were considered obscene.
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ

• Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Aracataca, March 6, 1927th note 1 - Mexico City, April 17, 20143) was a writer, screenwriter, editor and Colombian journalist. In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• It is inherently related to magical realism and his best known work, the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, is considered one of the most representative of this literary movement and is even considered by the success of the novel is that such a term applies To literature emerging from the 1960s in Latin America.6 7 In 2007, the Spanish Royal Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language launched a popular edition commemorating this novel, considering it part of the great classics Hispanics of all time.
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HECTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE

• Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince (Medellín, October 1, 1958) is a Colombian writer and journalist, better known for his books Angosta, who won the best foreign novel in April 2005, 1 and El olvido que We will be, on the life and murder of his father Héctor Abad Gómez, who was awarded the Latin America House of Latin America award for the book as best Latin American work and the Wola-Duke Prize in Human Rights. He has also received a National Story Award, a National Novel Award (1994) and two Simón Bolívar Awards for Opinion Journalism (1998 and 2006). In 2016 he created Angosta Editores, an independent publisher of Colombia.
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SILVIA TCHERASSI

• Silvia Tcherassi was born in Barranquilla on August 21, 1965. She was the Carnival Queen of Barranquilla in 1986, and in 1990 created her own company called Altamoda. In 2003 she was invited by the organizers to participate in the official fashion week calendar in Milan.4 In 2004 Tcherassi was decorated by the then French ambassador in Colombia, Daniel Parfait, with the Order of Arts and Letters, that government gives to national and foreign people who have made their contributions to the cultural field. In that same year she was invited to participate in fashion week in Paris. The designer has stores in Colombia, Spain and the United States with a brand bearing the same name. Silvia Tcherassi also has two hotels in Cartagena. The first Tcherassi Hotel + Spa was included in 2010 by Condé Nast Traveler as one of the best new hotels in the world. In that same year he released his book: Elegance without Effort. Silvia Tcherassi is married to Mauricio Espinosa; With whom he has two children: Mauricio and Sofía Espinosa. Tcherassi is a spokesman for the UNICEF campaign against the use of anti-personnel mines, More art, less mines.
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CARLOS VIVES

• Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (Santa Marta, August 7, 1961) is a Colombian singer, actor and composer, renowned in Latin America and other parts of the world for mixing Colombian music like vallenato and cumbia with pop. He has won two Grammy Awards and nine Latin Grammy Awards.
• Vives holds the highest number of nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards. With more than 9 gramophones to his credit, he was the first Colombian to win a Grammy Award from the American Recording Academy. In Spain he won the Ondas prize and in two opportunities, the Amigo prize, awarded by the Principality of Asturias.
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SHAKIRA

• (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, Barranquilla, 1977) Colombian singer of Latin pop-rock. There are very few Latin American stars of pop-rock music who have achieved such an overwhelming international success as Shakira, an interpreter and composer in Spanish and English who has achieved a prominent position in both languages.
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PEPE SANCHEZ

• Luis Guillermo Sánchez Méndez, better known as Pepe Sánchez (Bogotá, October 26, 1934 - December 21, 2016), was a director, screenwriter and actor of television, theater and cinema in Colombia.
• Pepe Sánchez was one of the most prolific figures of television and Colombian cinema. Among his works, Don Chinche stands out, which at the time, was seen by more than 14 million Colombians every Sunday. He won several awards at the India Catalina Awards, where he highlighted the best comedy series (1984), best story and librettos (1986) and best program of the 20th century (2000).
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NAIRO QUINTANA

• Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas ODB, (Tunja, Boyacá, February 4, 1990), better known as Nairo Quintana, is a Colombian road cyclist, professional since 2009 and current member of the Spanish team Movistar Team, UCI ProTeam category. During his professional career he has run in the teams Boyacá is for Vivirla and Café de Colombia / Colombia is Passion. His younger brother Dayer Quintana is also a professional cyclist on the same team.
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