Orlando Mejía Rivera

Orlando Mejía Rivera
Born	August 30, 1961 Bogotá
Occupation	physician
Nationality	Colombian
Education	M.D., M.Phil.
Subjects	thanatology

Orlando Mejía Rivera (born August 30, 1961) is a Colombian internist and graduated M.Phil., writer and thanatologist.^[1] He was born in Bogotá. Currently he lives in Manizales and is titular professor at the Universidad de Caldas faculty of medicine.^[2]

Works

• Antropología de la muerte 1987
• Humanismo y Antihumanismo, 1991
• La Casa Rosada, 1997
• La muerte y sus símbolos, 1999
• De la prehistoria a la medicina egipcia, 1999
• Pensamientos de guerra, 2000
• De clones, ciborgs y sirenas, 2000
• La generación mutante. nuevos narradores colombianos, 2002
• Los descubrimientos Serendípicos. Aproximaciones epistemológicas al contexto del descubrimiento científico, 2004
• Extraños escenarios de la noche, 2005
• El enfermo de Abisinia, 2007

Awards

• National award of the Academia de Medicina, 1994
• National novel award, Mincultura, 1998
• Colombian Camera book award, 1999
• National essay award, Bogotá, 1999

External links

• Orlando Mejía Rivera in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin

References

1. ^ Orlando Mejía-Rivera, Revista Aleph.
2. ^ Orlando Mejía Rivera: El Asunto García (Spanish).

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Name	Mejia Rivera, Orlando
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Date of birth	August 30, 1961
Place of birth	Bogotá
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