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Fernando Vallejo is a Créateur de nouvelle Colombienne born on 24 october 1942 at Medellín (Colombie)
Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittà, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he produced it, in presenting his first film (it was censored), he decided to leave his country.
In Mexico he produced and distributed three films about the violence in Colombia. He also wrote an award-winning children's theater script, "El reino misterioso o Tomás y las abejas." He has been living in Mexico since 1971, where he not only produced his cinematographic pieces, but also the whole of his literary work. Despite time spent in other locales, mainly Europe and the United States, most of his novels take place in Colombia. Some of his themes are grammar, biology, philosophy, physics, violence, pederasty, adolescence, drugs, death and politics, mostly related to places such as Antioquia and Medellín; yet his main theme is his life. His books are written in first person, in an autobiographical style, although he manipulates the conventions of autobiography such that the line between autobiography and fiction becomes significantly blurred.
His best-known novel, La virgen de los sicarios, has been translated into English as Our Lady of the Assassins. It deals with his fictionalized return to Medellín, and his relationships with two teenagers caught in the local cycle of violence. The autobiographical/fiction La virgen de los sicarios was made into a full feature film in 2000 and released in the United States as Our Lady of the Assassins.
In 2003, Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina made a feature-length documentary about him: "La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo ("The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo").
In April 2007, Vallejo obtained Mexican citizenship and published a letter in which he publicly renounced his Colombian nationality. The letter presents the reasons for his decision by mentioning several incidents during his career, among them the recent reelection of President Uribe, that eventually led him to this decision.
Vallejo is openly gay and lives with his partner, scenographist David Antón. He is known as an animal rights defender and vegetarian, and because of his antinatalist views, he has no children.
Contrairement à son père, Fernando Vallejo rompt par son homosexualité avec tout déterminisme social et réussit le tour de force d'être à la fois la bête noire des conservateurs colombiens et de certains intellectuels de gauche qui croient voir en lui un réactionnaire alors que l'ensemble de son œuvre est anticonformiste, provocateur et polémique.
Passionné de musique classique dès sa jeunesse, il aime jouer au piano les œuvres de Mozart, Chopin, Gluck et Richard Strauss. Après une seule année d'études à la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université nationale de Colombie à Bogotá, il s'inscrit en biologie à l'université pontificale Javeriana, dont il sort diplômé. Il séjourne ensuite en Europe, puis étudie le cinéma à Cinecittà en Italie. Le 25 février 1971, il s'installe à Mexico, où il réalise quelques films, dont En la tormenta (1980) qui remporte le prix Ariel en 1981.
En littérature, il est l'auteur du cycle romanesque El río del tiempo, dont seul Le Feu secret (El fuego secreto), paru en 1987, a été traduit en français. Son roman le plus connu, le thriller La Vierge des tueurs (La virgen de los sicarios), publié en 1994, est adapté au cinéma, sur un scénario de Vallejo, par le réalisateur suisse Barbet Schroeder en 2000. De plus, Vallejo reçoit le prix Rómulo Gallegos en 2003 pour son roman Et nous irons tous en enfer (El desbarrancadero).
Les thématiques principales de ses œuvres sont la violence, la mémoire, l'histoire de la Colombie et l'homosexualité. Oscillant sans cesse entre pessimisme, nostalgie et humour, son narrateur adopte généralement un ton imprécatoire.
En 2009, Il est intronisé docteur honoris causa par la faculté des sciences humaines de l'université nationale de Colombie.
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Birth name Fernando Vallejo Rendón
Nationality Colombie
Birth 24 october 1942 (82 years) at Medellín (Colombie)
Nationality Colombie
Birth 24 october 1942 (82 years) at Medellín (Colombie)
Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittà, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he produced it, in presenting his first film (it was censored), he decided to leave his country.
In Mexico he produced and distributed three films about the violence in Colombia. He also wrote an award-winning children's theater script, "El reino misterioso o Tomás y las abejas." He has been living in Mexico since 1971, where he not only produced his cinematographic pieces, but also the whole of his literary work. Despite time spent in other locales, mainly Europe and the United States, most of his novels take place in Colombia. Some of his themes are grammar, biology, philosophy, physics, violence, pederasty, adolescence, drugs, death and politics, mostly related to places such as Antioquia and Medellín; yet his main theme is his life. His books are written in first person, in an autobiographical style, although he manipulates the conventions of autobiography such that the line between autobiography and fiction becomes significantly blurred.
His best-known novel, La virgen de los sicarios, has been translated into English as Our Lady of the Assassins. It deals with his fictionalized return to Medellín, and his relationships with two teenagers caught in the local cycle of violence. The autobiographical/fiction La virgen de los sicarios was made into a full feature film in 2000 and released in the United States as Our Lady of the Assassins.
In 2003, Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina made a feature-length documentary about him: "La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo ("The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo").
In April 2007, Vallejo obtained Mexican citizenship and published a letter in which he publicly renounced his Colombian nationality. The letter presents the reasons for his decision by mentioning several incidents during his career, among them the recent reelection of President Uribe, that eventually led him to this decision.
Vallejo is openly gay and lives with his partner, scenographist David Antón. He is known as an animal rights defender and vegetarian, and because of his antinatalist views, he has no children.
Biography
Fernando Vallejo est né dans une famille bourgeoise et conservatrice. Son père, Aníbal Vallejo Álvarez fut avocat et directeur du journal conservateur El Poder. Il mena également une brillante carrière politique puisqu’il fut ministre des Travaux publics, sénateur, ministre du développement, membre de l’assemblée constituante de Colombie, secrétaire d’État et président du Directoire conservateur d’Antioquia.Contrairement à son père, Fernando Vallejo rompt par son homosexualité avec tout déterminisme social et réussit le tour de force d'être à la fois la bête noire des conservateurs colombiens et de certains intellectuels de gauche qui croient voir en lui un réactionnaire alors que l'ensemble de son œuvre est anticonformiste, provocateur et polémique.
Passionné de musique classique dès sa jeunesse, il aime jouer au piano les œuvres de Mozart, Chopin, Gluck et Richard Strauss. Après une seule année d'études à la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université nationale de Colombie à Bogotá, il s'inscrit en biologie à l'université pontificale Javeriana, dont il sort diplômé. Il séjourne ensuite en Europe, puis étudie le cinéma à Cinecittà en Italie. Le 25 février 1971, il s'installe à Mexico, où il réalise quelques films, dont En la tormenta (1980) qui remporte le prix Ariel en 1981.
En littérature, il est l'auteur du cycle romanesque El río del tiempo, dont seul Le Feu secret (El fuego secreto), paru en 1987, a été traduit en français. Son roman le plus connu, le thriller La Vierge des tueurs (La virgen de los sicarios), publié en 1994, est adapté au cinéma, sur un scénario de Vallejo, par le réalisateur suisse Barbet Schroeder en 2000. De plus, Vallejo reçoit le prix Rómulo Gallegos en 2003 pour son roman Et nous irons tous en enfer (El desbarrancadero).
Les thématiques principales de ses œuvres sont la violence, la mémoire, l'histoire de la Colombie et l'homosexualité. Oscillant sans cesse entre pessimisme, nostalgie et humour, son narrateur adopte généralement un ton imprécatoire.
En 2009, Il est intronisé docteur honoris causa par la faculté des sciences humaines de l'université nationale de Colombie.
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Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
, 1h41Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Origin Colombie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Juan David Restrepo, Barbet Schroeder
Roles Novel
Rating68%
Fernando (Germán Jaramillo) meets Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros), a handsome gay youth, at a party of one of his old friends and immediately falls for him. The two begin a relationship which, apart from the sex, consists mainly in Fernando telling Alexis how pastoral the city was when he left, while Alexis explains to Fernando the ins and outs of everyday robbery, violence, and shootings. Even though Fernando has come home to die, his sarcastic worldview is mellowed somewhat by his relationship with Alexis.