Jaime Ardila Casamitjana (12 January 1919 – 30 January 2019) was a Colombian writer. He was born in

Zapatoca Zapatoca () is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. It is at a high altitude and is a common stop between Bucaramanga and San Gil. It was built in the early 17th century by the Spain, Spanish conquistadores ...

, and graduated from the Colegio de San Pedro Claver in 1936, going on to a journalistic career. He was known for his novels ''Babel'' (1945) and ''Las manzanas del paraiso'' (1960). In 1965, he founded the tabloid ''

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''. He was the father of the politician Pablo Ardila Sierra. He died on 30 January 2019 in

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, at the age of 100.

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