MEDARDO ARIAS SATIZABAL. (Isla de Buenaventura, Colombia, 1956). Su primera novela, “Jazz para difuntos”, (Xajamaia Editores, Santa Fe de Bogotá, 1993) fue preseleccionada al Premio Latinoamericano de Novela “Pegaso” (1994), entre 483 obras de todo el cono sur.
Writer and journalist, was born in 1956 in Buenaventura Island , Colombia . His novel “Jazz para difuntos” was chosen for the “Pegaso” Latin American novel Prize in 1994 from among 483 works from he whole southern