Marvel Moreno

Marvel Moreno was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1939. As a teenager, under her father’s guide, she began to read the great writers, who would later come to bear a definitive influence upon her writing, including Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. She maintained a close relationship with the members of the "Barranquilla Group" including Gabriel García Márquez. She is well known in Colombia and is considered one of the most important Colombian writers. Her novel December Breeze was a finalist in the Plaza y Janés International Literary Prize in 1985 and was translated into Italian and French. In 1989 she received the Grinzane-Cavour prize awarded in Italy for best foreign book. She died in 1995 in Paris.