Jesus Zarate Moreno (Malaga 1915 - Bogota 1967), Colombian diplomat, journalist, essayist and fiction writer, author of several collections of short stories, including Un zapato en el jardin (1948), No todo es asi (1948), El viento en el rostro (1953), El dia de mi muerte (1955) and numerous essays and newspaper articles; and some works posthumously published, Tres piezas de teatro El unico habitante, Automovil en una noche de luna and Cuando pregunten por nosotros in 2003 and two novels La carcel (1972) and El cartero (1973). La carcel, which won the 1972 Premio Planeta in Spain, is his most famous work. Jesus Zarate, who was a brilliant diplomat and has been considered one of the great Colombian writers, is now one of the most forgotten men of our Colombian geography.