Felipe Restrepo Pombo

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Felipe Restrepo Pombo
NationalityColombian
OccupationJournalist and writer
Known forWorked for numerous magazines
Notable work
Formas de evasión

Felipe Restrepo Pombo is a Colombian journalist and writer. He studied literature at university and started his journalistic career in the news magazine Cambio , working alongside Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He has worked for numerous magazines, among them Paris Match , Esquire , Semana , Arcadia , El Espectador and Gente magazine . Most recently, he served as editor-in-chief of Gatopardo magazine of Mexico City.

He has published in a number of fiction and non-fiction genres, including a novel Formas de evasión (Seix Barral, 2016) and a biography of the artist Francis Bacon titled Retrato de una pesadilla (Panamericana, 2008). In 2017 he was named as one of the Bogotá39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America.

Restrepo Pombo was a fellow at the Fundación Prensa y Democracia at Iberoamerican University and attended workshops at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo with Tomás Eloy Martínez, Carlos Monsiváis and Martín Caparrós. [1]

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