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Writer and editor. He has been director of the National Program of Public Libraries, the library of the Universidad Externado of Colombia and the National Library. Professor of Literature for more than thirty years, and Cultural Counsel for the Colombian Embassy in Madrid. Much of his professional career has been dedicated to studying the literary and journalistic production of Gabriel García Márquez. He is co-founder and co-director, with Professor Andrés Lema-Hincapié, of the “Gabriel García Márquez Project” of the University of Colorado in Denver.
He has published the books: Novelas del dictador, dictadores de novela (Novels about Dictators, Dictators of Novels) (1978), Puerta abierta a Gabriel García Márquez (Opening the Door to Gabriel García Márquez) (1982), El tren y sus gentes (The Train and its People) (1995) — with Belisario Betancur as co-author, Gabriel García Márquez. El vicio incurable de contar (The Incurable Vice of Story Telling) (2005) and Leer a García Márquez (Reading García Márquez) (2015).