Alonso Gaona

Gaona Lopera Alonso (October 15,1967-) Calarcá, Colombia.

Writer, Painter, a human rights activist.

As a teenager, he spent three years in the depths of the Colombian jungle.

At the age of 16, he set off to conquer New York.

A lover of simple prose.

In 1998, Alonso Gaona wrote the novel “El Adios de la tierra Amada” (“Farewell of the Beloved Land”). It has become a universal song of the reality of the migrants in their journeys and dreams between laughter and tears. Published two decades later in Seville (Spain).

In 2012 he published “El Flaco y la Ministra” (“Skinny and madame Minister”).

A masterpiece of contemporary literature where involves the mechanical asphyxiation of the spirit of man towards his loneliness saved by the man’s best friend, a lost dog.

In 2022 he published his first saga "The Voice Of My Father And The 7 Curses Of The Mountain". A fantasy novel where for the first time the author and the character battle. The untold story of Angus, a cast-out hells angel falls to the ground in the midst of six spinster sisters.

In 2004, when coalition bombs rained down on Iraq, Alonso Gaona presented one of his most controversial artwork “Death of the UN” at the Colombian consulate (New York), demanding justice for the violation of international humanitarian law.

Alonso Gaona worked for several years as a cultural manager for the indigenous population at Caloto Cauca, a northern region of Colombia.

In 2012, Alonso Gaona was expelled from Colombia by the paramilitary and exiled in the United Kingdom, after his friend, Marino Mestizo, the leader of the indigenous population in Toez, Cauca, killed on June 25, 2009.

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