The Filbo 2024 International Book Fair paid tribute to the Certega writer Arnoldo de los Santos Palacios Mosquera, on the centenary of his birth.
On Friday, April 26, a discussion about the life and work of Arnoldo Palacios took place with the participation of José Palacios, (Arnobio’s nephew), the cultural manager Amalia de Pombo and the writer and editor Leonardo Archila.
The conversation was called ‘The legacy of Arnoldo Palacios in Afro-Colombian literature’. «The work has such power that it rises from the ashes alone. It disappears, someone finds it, reads it and it impacts again,” said cultural manager Amalia de Pombo about the book ‘The Stars Are Black’, by Arnoldo Palacios.
In 2024, it will be one hundred years since the birth of this precursor of the novel of denunciation in the country, author of ‘The stars are black’, ‘Buscando Mi Madrededión’, ‘The jungle and the rain’, among others, in which He talks about Chocó and his experiences.
Some of the works of the greatest writer from Chocó are the following:
When I started, 2009, Bogotá, San Librario; 2014, Bogotá, IDARTES and Ministry of Culture; 2022, Bogotá, Island of Books.
The Stars are Black, 1949, Iqueima Publishing House, 1st edition; 1971, Colombian Magazine Publishing House, Populibro, 2nd edition; 1998, Min. of Culture, National Tributes of Literature, 3rd edition; 2007, Intermediate Publishers, 4th edition.
The Jungle and the Rain, 1958, Editorial Progreso, Moscow, 1st edition; 2010, Intermedio Editores, 2nd edition
between us brothers
Searching for My Mother of God. 2009, Cali, Universidad del Valle; 2019, Bogotá, Editorial Planeta.
Christmas of a black child, El Tiempo, December 23, 1973
Panorama of black literature
Compilation of the oral literature of Chocó
Bitter panorama collided
The Goblin and the Guitar
Oral literature of Chocó
Tales of gold and platinum
The death of Olivella
Black Woman
Mr. Ecce Homo (story) 2016, Cali, Litocolor.
Three Polish Poems
Romanian Popular Poetry
Chocó must hold those who run it accountable, April 24, 1998,
The Brand of Iron, Normandie magazine, summer 1998,
Origin of a writer, Arnoldo Palacios in Hojas Universitarias No 47, April 1999.
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