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Ramon Chao is a distinguished writer and journalist living in Paris.
It is a great honour to have Ramón at Colombiage, discussing his cult classic The Train of Ice and Fire, the story of his son, Manu Chao’s train journey through Colombia with his band Mano Negra in 1993. Chao tells the story of a journey: a journey broken up by impromptu performances, but a journey that also leads to the band’s break up against the beautiful but conflicted backdrop of rural Colombia.
The book follows a group of French entertainers: artists, acrobats, tattooists, who travel through the heart of Colombia on a reclaimed train, putting on free concerts at stations along the way. Ramón adeptly weaves his social and political observations into his story of a journey through one of the most beautiful, but also one of the most dangerous landscapes in the world.
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Ramón Chao
Reconocido periodista y escritor español nacido en 1953. A los 31 años, por motivos políticos, se trasladó a Francia donde llegó a desempeñarse como redactor en jefe del servicio para América Latina de Radia Francia, donde fundó el destacado premio literario Juan Rulfo. De igual manera ha sido colaborador de los diarios Le Monde y Le monde Diplomatique. En 1993 estuvo en Colombia siguiéndole los pasos a su hijo Manu Chao y su banda de rock Mano Negra, quienes atravesaron medio país a borda de un tren, presentando un espectáculo inusual en la pueblos que se encuentran a orillas de la línea férrea, como lo es Aracataca, el lugar donde nació el premio nobel colombiano Gabriel García Márquez.
“Maybe it was the best adventure I ever had.” Manu Chao
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