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Juan Esteban Constaín
Juan Esteban Constaín is a Colombian writer. He was born in 1979 in Popayán. He published his first book in 2004, a short story collection titled ''Los Mártires''. His first novel followed three years later, titled ''El naufragio del Imperio''. His second novel ''¡Calcio!'', dealing with the probable origins of football, won the Espartaco prize. His 2014 book ''El hombre que no fue Jueves'' (''The Man Who Wasn't Thursday'') was a homage to G.K. Chesterton's classic novel ''The Man Who Was Thursday''. It became a domestic bestseller and won the Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize. He has also published a book on Gabriel García Márquez titled ''Gabo contesta'' (2015). Constain lives and works in Bogotá, where he teaches international relations at the Universidad del Rosario. He is also a translator and newspaper columnist. In 2017, he was named as one of the Bogotá39 Bogotá39 was a collaborative project between the Hay Festival and Bogotá: UNESCO World Book Capita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popayán
Popayán () is the capital of the Colombian department of Cauca. It is located in the Pubenza Valley in southwestern Colombia between the Western Mountain Range and Central Mountain Range. The municipality has a population of 318,059, an area of 483 km2, is located 1760 meters above sea level, and has an average temperature of 18 °C. The town is well known for its colonial architecture and its contributions to Colombian cultural and political life. It is also known as the "white city" due to the color of most of the colonial buildings in the city center, where several churches are located, such as San Francisco, San José, Belén, Santo Domingo, San Agustín, and the Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, known locally as "La Catedral". The city's cathedral was home to the Crown of the Andes, a 16th-century Marianist devotional object featuring emeralds taken from the captured Inca Emperor Atahualpa. It was sold to finance local health care instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espartaco Prize
Spartacus (; ) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a century after his death. Plutarch's ''Life of Crassus'' and Appian's ''Civil Wars'' provide the most comprehensive details of the slave revolt. Despite being a significant figure in Roman history, no contemporary sources exist, and all accounts were by those not directly involved, significantly later, and without perspectives from slaves or eyewitnesses. Little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving accounts are contradictory. All sources agree he was a former gladiator and accomplished military leader. Spartacus is described as a Thracian by birth, possibly from the Maedi tribe. Before his enslavement and role as a gladiator, he had served as a soldier with the Romans. His revolt began in 73 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
