Pütchi Biyá Uai is a multilingual anthology of Colombian contemporary indigenous literature contemporary made up of poems and other brief literary works written in indigenous languages such as Wayuunaiki, Camëntsá, Quechua, Uwa, Uitoto Minika, and Spanish. Pütchi means word and voice in Wayuunaiki; biyá refers to the Camëntsá speaker, and uai comes from Uitoto language. These books display works written between 1956 and 2010.
Pütchi Biyá Uai is a multilingual anthology of Colombian contemporary indigenous literature contemporary made up of poems and other brief literary works written in indigenous languages such as Wayuunaiki, Camëntsá, Quechua, Uwa, Uitoto Minika, and Spanish. Pütchi means word and voice in Wayuunaiki; biyá refers to the Camëntsá speaker, and uai comes from Uitoto language. These books display works written between 1956 and 2010.
Published in 1960, La Calle 10 is a novel by Manuel Zapata Olivella set in Bogotá. In this city, the author of this work lived when studying Medicine amidst the reigning atmosphere of the misery of those years that, in turn, would be the proper scenario for the explosion of violence after Jorge Eliecer Gaitán's death on April 9, 1948.
The amazement of witnessing entire civilizations that resulted foreign to the European construct, together with the variety of plants and animals, and the outrageous amount of gold and precious stones complemented by the thrill and fear of facing death in every corner, must have been so sharp and deep for conquerors that they had to improvise their very own style and wording to give an account of everything they saw.