Education
Pontifical Bolivarian University.
Pontifical Bolivarian University.
She has published around 16 books, all of them in Spanish. In 1979 she participated in the "International Writers Program" at the University of Iowa (Usono).
National (Colombian) Poetry Award Guillermo Valencia in 1973 International Poetry Award Café Marfil, Madrid, in 1974 ‘l’Ordre des Aniseteurs du Return On Investment’, París, 1976 National Poetry Award "Porfirio Barba Jacob", Medellín, 2004 Up to 2009 she has achieved 18 national and international public recognitions, (among awards and condecorations). Her cantata Cosmofonía was performed for the first time on radio and television in France in 1976 with music of the conductor Marc Carles. Her poem Cosmoagonia, with scientific (astronomy) and humanistic content, has been performed in eight important planetariums around the world such as New York and Washington. Olga Elena Mattei"s literature activities go from reporting, arts and music criticism. As a graduate in philosophy and arts by Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín she cooperates with the music critic column in the Medellin newspaper El mundo, in which she comments, among others, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Medellin concerts. Besides, she is lecturer of arts and ancient cultures. Up to 2009 she has 16 publications and many others looking for publisher.