Delia Zapata Olivella ( Santa Cruz of Lorica,

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, 1 April 1926 – Bogota, 24 May 2001) was a Colombian

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. Zapata Olivella was the sister of the late Colombian author

Manuel Zapata Olivella Manuel Zapata Olivella ( Santa Cruz of Lorica, Córdoba, 17 March 1920 – Bogota, 19 November 2004) was a Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer. Biography When he was a boy, his father, the professor Antonio María Zapata Vásquez, ...

. Zapata Olivella died on 24 May 2001 of complications from malaria after a tour in Africa

Bibliography

"La Cumbia: Síntesis Musical de la Nación Colombiana, Reseña Histórica y Coreográfica"
1962. ''Revista Colombiana de Folclor'' III(7): 189–200.

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