Caycedo was born on March 3rd.,1940, in Zipaquirá, a municipality near Bogotá, and is remembered for his work as a chronicler for more than a decade in the newspaper 'El Tiempo', and as a writer of books such as 'El Karina', which was translated into nine languages.

The Colombian writer and chronicler Germán Castro Caycedo, who in 2015 received the award for the Life and Work of a Journalist from the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, has died at the age of 81 in Bogotá.  Relatives informed his demise to local media.

"This is a sad day for Colombia, the death of Germán Castro Caycedo, that great democrat and great chronicler of the Colombia that he loved so much," Senator Jorge Robledo, of the Dignidad movement, wrote on Twitter. Robledo invited all "to read and reread his works, keys to better understand the diversity and wealth of the Colombian nation."

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