Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo: son of a Colombian diplomat, he spent his early years in
Brussels, where his father served as ambassador. Photograph: Omar Torres/AFP
Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo, the prolific Colombian man of letters,
died Sunday in Mexico City at the age of 90. Though he worked as
a broadcaster, film executive, radio actor, and newspaper columnist, Mutis
was most well known for his writing. Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García
Márquez called Mutis “one of the greatest writers of our time”.
Mutis’s most
enduring creation remains the wandering sailor Maqroll, the star of his many
novellas collected in The Adventures and Misadventures of
Maqroll. "The millions of friends and admirers of Alvaro
Mutis profoundly lament his death,” Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos
wrote. “All of Colombia honors him."
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