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= Emilia Pardo Umaña = A pioneer of female journalism in Colombia, during thirty years of professional life worked in opinion columns in major newspapers such as El Espectador, El Tiempo, El Siglo and El Mercurio, interpreting the interests of citizens with a particular tone of irony on political issues. Her overwhelming and direct personality and her singular character stand out: coming from a conservative family, she transgressed spaces that for her time were reserved for men, such as political debate, journalism and her autonomy as a single woman. She was also one of the few women of her time to drive a car. Chronicle, report, interview, review and opinion were the journalistic genres she covered.

Biography
Emilia Pardo Umaña, was born in Bogotá in 1907, in an upper-class Santa Fe family with a conservative tradition. She was the second of nine children and her older brother K-milo (her name as a writer), author of Las haciendas de la sabana, tiempos viejos (1946) was her great accomplice and companion in journalism and her vocation for literature, revealed since she learned to read before she was five years old.

In 1915 she began her primary studies at the school of Señoritas Echavarría in the Santa Bárbara neighborhood of Bogotá and attended high school at the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón. She later studied nursing at the Centro de Acción Social Infantil and at the Hospital de San José. After receiving the education that at the time was considered appropriate for women of her class, Emilia broke with tradition and decided to become a journalist, an unusual profession for a woman in Colombia until then.

She was the first woman to actively participate in a newsroom, searching for sources, investigating, walking the streets of Bogotá. She fascinated by her narrative style as a chronicler, breaking schemes by not allowing herself to be pigeonholed like most of her gender at the time: her longing was not to be a married woman, she frequented the cafes of downtown Bogotá in the thirties and forties where the political debate and the poetic vein boiled. Cigarettes, coffee, cognac and journalism were her great passions.