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Laura Restrepo

Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. She was born in Bogota in 1950. She graduated from the University of the Andes with a degree in Philosophy and Literature and afterwards completed postgraduate work in Political science.

In the 1960s Restrepo gave up her teaching post at the National University to focus on left wing politics, and spent time in Spain and Argentina where she was part of the underground resistance.

In 1983, she served as a member of the commission that neogiated for peace with the guerrilla movement M-19. Her first book, Historia de un entusiasmo (1986), relates the inability ...

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