above click here. LANGUAGE DAY
. To remember the work of the famous writer Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra and commemorate their death, on April 23, 1616, today celebrated the Language Day , Book , of Biblotecario , and copyright.
also recalls the birth and death of other writers who made great contributions to our language and the world of books.
Language Day was institutionalized in Colombia through Decree 708 of April 23, 1938, during the administration of President Alfonso Lopez, was Minister of Education José Joaquín Martínez Castro.
Among the acts for which is celebrated on April 23 Language Day, are:
- Death of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, the April 23, 1616 . His biographers and scholars know the exact date of his birth. Only established that he was baptized on October 9, 1547. This novelist is admired worldwide for his masterpiece "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha." He is also author of "work Persiles", "Segismunda" and "Exemplary Novels."
- Birth, April 23, 1564 and death on April 23, 1616, English writer and playwright William Shakespeare , author of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and Othello, among others.
- Birth of Marco Fidel Suarez in Bello, Antioquia 1855. author of the works "Prayer to Jesus Christ" and "Dreams of Luciano Thumb", this last of 12 volumes, entered all his literary work. He was President from 1918 to 1922. He died on April 3, 1927, in Bogotá at the age of 72 years.
- Birth of writer Manuel Mejia Vallejo Antioquia, in 1923 . Short story writer and novelist, Mejia Vallejo was a great literary work, the pride of all countries and Colombians in general. Wrote "At the foot of the city", "The appointed day "," The man who looked like a ghost "and" the deaths of others ", among others.
