Eduardo Zalamea Borda

Eduardo Zalamea Borda (1907-1963) was a Colombian journalist and writer. He was born in Bogota. After a failed suicide attempt in Barranquilla, he went to live in La Guajira for several years. He came back to Bogota at the age of 21. He joined the newspaper La Tarde as a cub reporter. He went on to become editor at El Liberal and El Espectador newspapers. At the latter, he became known for promoting young writers. Among them was the future Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose first story was published in El Espectador in 1947.
Zalamea Borda was also known as a writer in his own right. He is considered a pioneer of modernist narrative techniques in Colombian prose. He published a well-received novel 4 años a bordo de mí mismo in 1934, although it was initially thought of as pornographic. His second novel La cuarta bateria was not published in his lifetime, only coming out in 2001.
He died in 1963.
Zalamea Borda is related to the Colombia writers Luis Zalamea Borda and Jorge Zalamea Borda.