Colombia
Cultural assistant manager of the Banco de la República de Colombia

http://www.banrepcultural.org/ 

Ángela María Pérez 

She directs the cultural work of the Bank of the Republic in Colombia, which includes 24 cultural centers with 19 public libraries. She was director of the Luís Ángel Arango Library, leading center of this cultural work. For ten years she taught Latin American literature at Brandeis University, where she also directed the Center for Latin American Studies. She holds a BA in Journalism from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York.

Her book The Geography of Difficult Times received the Casa de la Américas award in 2000. In addition to numerous publications, particularly on the subject of travel literature, buccaneers in the Caribbean and genre in Latin American literature, she is co-author of the film script Rodrigo D, winner of the Latin American Film Festival in New York and selected in the Festival of Cannes the same year.