Hernando Urriago Benítez

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Hernando Urriago Benítez is a poet and essay writer who was born in Cali, Colombia in 1974. He studied literature in Universidad del Valle and a Magister in Colombian and Latin American Literature. His grading thesis was about essay writer Baldomero Sanín Cano. Urriago Benítez won the National Poetry Prize in 1999 and published his book Esplendor de la Ceniza (Cinder's splendor) in 2003. In 2006, he published his first essay book, Caligrafías del Asombro. He currently works in Universidad del Valle with other writers like Carlos Patiño Millán, Fabio Martínez and Oscar Perdomo Gamboa.