Fredy Yezzed - Culturebook

Fredy Yezzed (Bogotá, Colombia, 1979). Writer, poet and Human Rights advocate. After traveling throughout Latin America for six months, he settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His books of poetry are «La sal de la locura», (Macedonio Fernández National Poetry Prize, Buenos Aires, 2010), «El diario inédito del filósofo vienés Ludwig Wittgenstein» (Buenos Aires, 2012), «Carta de las mujeres de este país», (New York, 2019), Mention of Poetry in the Literary Prize House of the Americas 2017, La Habana, Cuba, and «La orilla de los heterónimos» (Bogotá, 2020). As a literary critic he has compiled and introduced the following books, «Párrafos de aire: Primera antología del poema en prosa colombiano» (Editorial de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, 2010), «La risa del ahorcado: Antología poética de Henry Luque Muñoz» (Editorial de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 2015), and he is coauthor of «Yo vengo a ofrecer mi poema. Antología de resistencia» (Bogotá, 2021).