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Alvaro Mutis Dies: Famed Colombian Poet And Author Dead At 90 In Mexico City

Mutis, a poet who also chronicled the adventures of the quixotic sailor Maqroll over the course of seven novellas, engaged in plenty of swashbuckling of his own over the course of his lifetime, serving 15 months in Mexico City’s notorious Lecumberri prison and working as a broadcaster, film executive, radio actor and newspaper columnist.