Gonzalo González "GOG"

Gonzalo González GOG, Aracataca, Colombia, 1920. Bogotá, 1992. Lawyer, journalist, intellectual, philanthropist, philologist, language teacher, humanist, sportsman, professor and promoter of writers. Practiced journalism for 55 years. Editorialist of El Tiempo and El Espectador. He used the pseudonym GOG as a commentator on human problems and psychological problems of language. Author of the book "El Estado de Sitio y el Dinamismo Jurídico del Orden Público". Teacher of several generations of journalists and lawyers in more than ten universities in the country. Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad del Atlántico and of Communication Sciences of the Universidad de América. Director of the Magazín Dominical, the Literary Supplement and the Dominical of El Espectador. Author of the following newspaper columns: Questions and Answers; Day by Day; Language Traps; GOG; The Methodical Doubt; Cardinal Points; Language and Chessboard. He obtained these awards: National Chess Master, in 1952, Nemqueteba Award to the best librettist of the National Television, in 1955 and Panelist of the radio program Los Catedráticos informan. He played a key role in these journalistic campaigns: Los municipios olvidados, Las colonizaciones del Caquetá y del Alto Baudó, La Literatura compro-metida, León de Greiff, Divulgación del Esperanto, Divulgación del Sicoanálisis de Sigmund Freud and Recuerdos de La Cueva barranquillera. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)