Orlando Echeverri Benedetti
About
Orlando Echeverri Benedetti is a Colombian writer based in the United Kingdom. He has previously worked for the newspaper El Universal. El Malpensante and Universo Centro have also both published some his short stories and articles. In 2014 he was awarded the Bogotá Institute of Arts Book Award with his novel "Sin freno por la senda equivocada", which was later published by El Peregrino Ediciones. His second novel, "Criacuervo", was published the following year by Angosta Editores and selected as one of the best Colombian books in 2017 by SOHO magazine. Criacuervo was also one of the final novels selected for the National Book Prize of the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2018. In 2018, Random House published his third book, "La fiesta en el cañaveral" a collection of short stories.
