David Sánchez Juliao

{{Short description|Ambassador of Colombia (1945–2011)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = David Sánchez Juliao

|image = David Sanchez Juliao.jpg

|birth_name = David Sánchez Juliao

|birth_date = {{birth date|1945|11|24}}

|birth_place = {{flagicon|COL}} Santa Cruz de Lorica, Córdoba, Colombia.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|2|9|1945|11|24}}

|death_place = {{flagicon|COL}} Bogotá, Colombia.

|pseudonym =

|occupation = Writer, ambassador, short story, journalist.

|nationality = Colombian

|ambassador_from = Colombia

|country = Egypt

|term_start = 1995

|term_end = 1996

|president = Ernesto Samper Pizano

|ambassador_from2 = Colombia

|country2 = India

|term_start2 = 1991

|term_end2 = 1993

|president2 = César Gaviria

|party =

|website = http://www.davidsanchezjuliao.com/

}}

David Sánchez Juliao (November 24, 1945 – February 9, 2011) was a Colombian author, journalist, storyteller and diplomat.

Sánchez Juliao was born in Lorica. He was the Colombian ambassador to India during the César Gaviria administration and ambassador to Egypt during the Ernesto Samper administration. Among his most important works are: El pachanga, El flecha, El flecha II el retorno (2006), Abraham al humor, Fosforito, Historias de Racamandaca y Dulce Veneno Moreno.

Sanchez Juliao's works have been translated into 15 languages and received a number of literary prizes.[http://www.eluniversal.com.co/v2/cartagena/cultural/homenaje-david-sanchez-juliao Homenaje a David Sánchez Juliao]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, El Universal Sánchez Juliao's works provide an outline of the culture of Colombia's North Coast, and the Córdoba region specifically.

Sanchez Juliao died in Bogotá on February 9, 2011, at the age of 65.