![Efrén Alexander Giraldo Quintero Efrén Alexander Giraldo Quintero](https://herder.com.mx/sites/default/files/styles/writer/public/uploads/writer_images/giraldoquintero.jpg?itok=UO4vhLD5)
Essayist, critic, researcher, editor and university professor. He is a Professor and Researcher at EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia. She belongs to the research group Studies in Philosophy, Hermeneutics and Narratives of the same institution. He won the National Prize for Literature at the University of Antioquia in 2012 and the National Prize for Historical Curatorship from the District Institute of the Arts and the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation in Bogotá in 2013. It was included in the Antioquian Authors Collection in 2009. He has been awarded research and creation grants from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and the Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellín. Since 2015 she has coordinated the Medellín Critic Workshop, an independent space to support critical writing and debate on arts and culture.