Alfonso Carvajal (writer)

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Alfonso Carvajal is a writer and editor born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1958.

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He also reviews books in the newspaper El Tiempo. As an editor, he has published works by Aurelio Arturo, Germán Espinosa and Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot, among others.

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