Fernando Vallejo

Fernando Vallejo Rendn is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.

Vallejo was born and raised in Medelln, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogot, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogot, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecitt, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.

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