Luis Eduardo Rendón
Fernando Rendon
Guerre
Toujours tu auras des raisons
Tu vas tirer l'epee comme un ange
Et a l'instant ou tu la degaines tu deviens un demon.
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Arrival in Medellin - Gran Hotel, June 17, 2016
Louis Fernando Rendon, Gloria Rendon, Staff member, Fernando Rendon
Fernando Rendon, Hatto Fischer - upon arrival June 17, 2016
Fernando Rendon at the closing ceremony Photo: Ralph Nazareth
Interview with Fernando Rendon
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/medellin_interview.html
Fernando Rendón was born in Medellín (Colombia), in 1951. He has published the poetry books Contrahistoria, Bajo otros soles, Canción en los Campos de Marte, Los motivos del salmón, La cuestión radiante (Venezuela, Egypt, Costa Rica) La Question radiante (Francia), The Way of Salmon (United States), La Rama Roja (Cuba), En flotación (Colombia) and Poesía (Italia) He has founded the poetry magazine Prometeo (1982).In 1991 he and a team founded The International Poetry Festival of Medellin. The Foundation Right Livelihood Award with its headquarters in Stockholm has officially announced at September 28, 2006, that a jury formed by ten international personalities has decided to grant the 2006 Alternative Nobel Prize to the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, “in recognition of its courage and hope in times of despair”, among 73 candidates of 40 nations, activists for truth, peace and social justice. Web:
http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub.php/en/Intro/index.htm
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