User:Langston Cervantes-Fields

Langston Cervantes-Fields (talk) 22:35, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Ref-El Tiempo, El Espectador,tallerdeedicion.com, elnuevosiglo.comLangston Cervantes-Fields (talk) 22:25, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Luis Zalamea Borda (1921-2013)

Was a Colombian journalist, poet and writer, in his life time he was also an international public relations specialist, commentator, anchorman, “cuisine connoisseur,” and English-Spanish translator. He was born into an affluent and important family. He was first known as a poet and had written four poetry books as well as “The Hour of Giving” (1966) an English written novel. At the age of sixty started writing his first Spanish novel, “The Scorpion’s circle” (1990). “The War of the Champagne” a family saga based in his ancestors, the Zalamea Lopez, was published in 1992. He worked in his biography “Memoirs of a Dilettante” for eight years and this one was published in 2009.

He studied in New York and started working for the United Press where later was the assigned reporter at United Nations. He also worked as a press correspondent in Buenos Aires, Mexico and Bogota but made Miami his residency where he worked for the “El Nuevo Herald” as a columnist. In Miami he became close to one of the recent families in exile that moved to Miami in the early sixties because of the Cuban revolution. His interaction with them inspired him to write the “The Scorpion’s circle” (1990) a bestseller in Miami.

There were several scholars and writers in the Zalamea Borda family, among them were cousin Eduardo Zalamea Borda (1907-1963) who was known for promoting young writers among them was the future Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jorge Zalamea Borda (1905-1969) older brother to Luis was also an accomplished writer and influential diplomat. Luis Zalamea Borda died in Miami in 2013.