Wilson Rogelio Enciso
Wilson Rogelio Enciso is a Colombian writer (Chaguaní, 1958).
Professional in Political and Administrative Sciences (Public Administrator), specialized in Urban and Regional Planning Administration and graduated at the University Teaching, Virtual Education, Distance Education and Strategic Planning. He worked with the Colombian State between 1978 and 2015 and was a university professor from 1986 to 2012.
He is the author of a saga of sixteen novels, two in process and four in perspective, two compilations of romantic narratives and more than sixty short stories. He is the author of short stories and tales that he uploads periodically to networks and publishes in Revista Latina NC, in Escondite Literario Tropical and in his page wrenciso.com.
He founded and manages since 2016 the literary initiative: A novel for every school. She seeks to encourage reading from the classroom in remote places with difficult access to literature, both in her country and in other parts of the world. He has donated more than one hundred and twenty copies of his works to at least fifty municipalities, cities and libraries, including in the United States, Costa Rica (Punta Arenas) and the Dominican Republic (Higüey, La Alta Gracia).
Published works
- La iluminada muerte de Marco Aurelio Mancipe, 2016, finalist novel in the IV International Latino Contact International Novel Award 2016, from Pukiyari Editores, Columbus, Ohio, and second place in International Latino Book Arwads (ILBA), Los Angeles, California, in the category of Best Historical Fiction Novel 2019.
- Synthesis: The story of a perverse gamonal at the service of national power, until he showed weakness and ceased to be useful, for which even his wife left him.
- Con derrotero incierto, 2017, novel.
- Synthesis: Description of how poverty, especially rural poverty, affects people's lives from childhood to the day of the last goodbye.
- Enfermos del alma, 2018, novel.
- Synthesis: When Rodrigo falls in love, he enters an asylum where the system hides terrible truths. Then, unknowingly, he gets involved in the death of a feared crook and drug merchant, but with immense power and official backing, which seals his fate.
- El frío del olvido, 2019, novel.
- Synthesis: That was a subcontinental society, the Mencino, condemned to repeat, once and many times, its calamitous history. This is what Father Sarmiento sentenced in Oroguaní at the beginning of the 20th century, and it was ratified and perpetuated by Dr. Abelardo Uribia Morales during his two consecutive mandates... almost a century later.
- Amé en silencio, y en silencio muero, 2017, compilation of romantic narratives. It is a hymn to ungrateful love, a farewell to youth and a languid salute to the inexorable and dreaded arrival of old age.
Literary awards
- International Latino Book Awards, in the category Best Fiction Novel in Spanish, for the novel 'La iluminada muerte de Marco Aurelio Mancipe', Los Angeles, California, 2019, 2nd place. A perverse and illiterate gamonal was at the service of national power until when he ceased to be effective, to such an extent that even his wife turned her back on him..
- Finalist in BOOKERS AWARDS – MICRORRELATOS 2019, with “Un galardón resbaloso. It relates the vicissitudes of an unknown writer to get him to his country a recognition obtained in Los Angeles, California.
- Winner of the Seventh Prize of MICRORRELATOS REVISTA GUKA 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with “El día soñado”.
- Special mention in MICRORRELATOS REVISTA GUKA 2020, with ‘El perdón’.