He has been coordinator of the Chair of the Observatory of the Colombian Caribbean and is currently a professor of Literature at the Universidad del Atlántico.
He has been editor, columnist and editor of the newspaper El Tiempo de Bogotá since 1964; editor of Cambio16 magazine (Spain) and collaborator of numerous newspapers and magazines in Spain and Latin America.
After the publication of her first novel, Ghana Must Go, she was named to the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 "with the potential and talent to define trends in African literature."
He has written for El País, Clarín, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the magazines Etiqueta Negra, Letras Libres and El Malpensante.
He is the author of two novels, A Guide for the Perplexed, and the recent Septimania and his plays and operas have been performed in the US, England, Italy, the Netherlands and Georgia.