Eduardo Otálora Marulanda studied philosophy at the National University of Colombia and then completed a Master's degree in Creative Writing at the same university. In 2012, he won the 20th Juan March Cencillo Short Novel Prize with his novel Madolia, which was published in 2013 by Pre-textos and translated into Arabic in 2015. In 2017, he published Donde habitan las palabras (Where Words Live), his second novel, with the University of Cauca Press. In 2018, he was a finalist for the La Cueva short story prize, and in 2019, he won the City of Bogotá National Novel Prize with the book La hora gris, published in 2020 by Fondo de Cultura Económica. That same year, he published the children's book Mi primer Quijote (My First Quixote) as part of the Planeta publishing house's reading plan. Then, in 2023, he also published La odisea de la maestra Milagros (The Odyssey of Teacher Milagros) as part of the reading plan. More recently, in 2025, he published the novel Quieto (Still) with the Seix Barral publishing house.
