Non-Amazonian Writers/Escritores no amazónicos

Germán Castro Caycedo

Zipaquirá, Colombia, 1940 – Bogotá, 2021

Colombian writer. In some of his books, he explores stories set in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.

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El alcaraván” (1996)

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Novel set in the Orinoco region in the Colombian Amazon.

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Perdido en el Amazonas” (2014)

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Marc André Meyers

Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1946

Brazilian author. In his works, he explores the cultural practices of the Yanomami and the effect of the mining industry in the Amazon.

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“Yanomami. A novel. (2016)

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John Peters

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Life among the Yanomami. (1998)

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Ethnographic work on the Yanomami people.

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José Antonio Mazzotti

Lima, Perú, 1961

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“Nawa Isko Iki / Amazonian Chants” (2023, 2nd edition) 15) 

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A book that compiles oral stories from the last speakers of the Iskonawa language who live in the present-day Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon. The compiler is the renowned Peruvian poet José Mazzotti.

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