Orlando Echeverri Benedetti

Orlando Echeverri Benedetti
Born(1980-10-26)October 26, 1980
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
OccupationWriter, Translator
NationalityColombian, Spanish
GenreNovel, Short story, Essay
Notable worksCriacuervo

Orlando Echeverri Benedetti (born 26 October 1980 in Cartagena de Indias) is a Colombian writer and translator.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Cartagena and a master's degree in Journalism from Torcuato di Tella University. He has published short stories and essays in El Malpensante,[1] Universo Centro and at the Société Jersiaise[2] where he served as project curator for the photographic archive.

In 2014 he won the National Book Award from the District Institute of the Arts (IDARTES) of Colombia for his first novel, Sin freno por la senda equivocada. The work was longlisted for the Colombian Ministry of Culture's National Novel Award in 2016 but did not advance to the final round.[3]

His second novel, Criacuervo (Angosta Editores, 2017),[4][5][6][7] was described by Letras Libres as among the most important works in contemporary Spanish American literature.[8] It was shortlisted for the Colombian Ministry of Culture's National Novel Award in 2018.[9][10][11] The novel explores the orphanhood and uprooting of two German brothers who try to reunite in a Colombian desert.[12][13][14]

In 2018 Penguin Random House published La fiesta en el cañaveral,[15][16] and in 2019 IDARTES invited him to take part in Bogotá Contada, an initiative that brings writers to the Colombian capital to write about the city.[17][18]

He has translated works by Mark Twain,[19] F. Scott Fitzgerald, and contemporary authors such as Julianne Pachico and Sergio de la Pava.

Works

Novels

  • Sin freno por la senda equivocada. Bogotá: El Peregrino Ediciones. 2015. ISBN 9789588911182.
  • Criacuervo. Medellín: Angosta Editores. 2017. ISBN 9789585965263.
    • Criacuervo. Santiago de Chile: Edicola Ediciones. 2017. ISBN 9789569277450.
    • Criacuervo. Translated by Marta Rota Núñez. Edizioni Arcoiris. 2019. ISBN 9788899538439.

Short story collections

  • La fiesta en el cañaveral. Penguin Random House. 2018. ISBN 9789585458611.

Anthologies

  • Puñalada trapera. Rey Naranjo Editores. 2017. ISBN 9789588969473.
  • El Coi y otros cuentos. Fundación La Cueva. 2018. ISBN 9789585938588.
  • Bogotá contada 7. IDARTES. 2021. ISBN 9789585595507.
  • Muchas vidas por vivir. Ministry of Culture of Colombia. 2022. ISBN 9791167070630.
  • Cuentos y relatos de la literatura colombiana. Fondo de Cultura Económica. 2023. ISBN 9789585197329.

Awards

  • National Book Award, IDARTES, Colombia, 2014.
  • National Short Story Award, IDARTES, Colombia, 2017.

References

  1. ^ "Publicaciones en El Malpensante". El Malpensante (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  2. ^ "British Art Network". British Art Network. 1 January 2025. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  3. ^ Jiménez Estrada, Camilo (3 January 2017). "Diez mejores libros de 2016". Bacanika (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  4. ^ Alzate, Sergio (11 July 2017). "Reseña de Criacuervo, novela de Orlando Echeverri Benedetti". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. ^ Aragón, Mauricio (8 February 2021). "El desierto crece: Criacuervo". El Laberinto del Minotauro (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  6. ^ Cooper, Adriana (22 May 2017). "'Criacuervo': vivir con el destino?". Semana (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  7. ^ Rivera Marín, Daniel (24 April 2017). "Prefiero la violencia que subsiste como una amenaza invisible". Semana (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  8. ^ Guzmán Rubio, Federico (28 March 2023). "El territorio indómito: mapa de la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XXI". Letras Libres (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Estos son los cinco finalistas del Premio Nacional de Novela". El Espectador (in Spanish). 5 July 2018. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  10. ^ Brodmeier, Keryl (6 July 2018). "Dos caribes por el Premio Nacional de Novela". El Heraldo (in Spanish). p. 10. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  11. ^ "Dos cartageneros, entre los cinco finalistas del Premio Nacional de Novela 2018 de Mincultura". Revista Metro (in Spanish). 7 July 2018. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  12. ^ Franco, Martín (31 May 2017). "Criacuervo, la nueva sorpresa de la literatura colombiana". Soho (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  13. ^ Carpio Franco, Ricardo (25 June 2020). "Crítica a Criacuervo". Universidad de Antioquia (in Spanish). doi:10.17533/udea.elc.n47a14. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  14. ^ Díaz Benavides, Santiago (29 October 2022). "Cinco escritores colombianos contemporáneos para seguir de cerca". Infobae (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  15. ^ Gaviria, Nicolás (16 January 2019). "«La fiesta en el cañaveral», de Orlando Echeverri Benedetti, y el pozo asfixiante de la vida". Semana (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  16. ^ "La fiesta en el cañaveral". Semana (in Spanish). 23 October 2018. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  17. ^ "Orlando Echeverri Benedetti, último invitado a Bogotá Contada". El Espectador (in Spanish). 15 November 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  18. ^ El aserradero — Bogotá contada 7 (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Distrital de las Artes de Bogotá. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  19. ^ OpenLibrary (25 August 2025). "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, translated by Orlando Echeverri Benedetti". Retrieved 2 September 2025.
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