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Tuan Nyamok [El Señor de los Mosquitos]
Relatos de la vida de Julián de Zulueta contados a María García Alonso
JULIÁN DE ZULUETA y MARÍA GARCÍA ALONSO
Through his conversations with María García Alonso, Julián de Zulueta offers in this book the memories of his eventful life, collected and organized for the first time. Tuan Nyamok unites his memories from childhood in Madrid and his exile with his family in Paris and Colombia; his work as an epidemiologist at the Rockefeller Foundation; his activity as head of the World Health Organization in many projects connected with malaria in countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; his duties as a consultant and advisor to various national and international institutions related to environmental conservation, and his time as mayor of Ronda. Zuleta’s unique and interesting life, unusual for a Spanish man born in 1918, is recounted here with passion, wisdom and great humor, the story of a man known by the Dayak people of Borneo as "Tuan Nyamok" (the "Lord of the Mosquitos').
Julián de Zulueta was born in Madrid on November 30, 1918. His parents were Luis de Zulueta and Amparo Cebrián. He was a student of the Free Institution of Teaching and the Instituto-Escuela, Madrid, and completed part of his secondary studies in Berlin. After the Spanish Civil War, his family went into exile in Colombia. Julián graduated in Medicine from the University of Bogotá and completed his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, and the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
After working with the Rockefeller Foundation, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO), where he was responsible, for twenty-five years, for health projects in many countries, especially in the campaigns against malaria, a field to which he made important scientific contributions.
His career has been honored with many distinctions, including honorary doctorates from the University of Turin, the Star of Independence of Jordan, and a Special Award for Environment in Spain.
Zulueta currently lives in Ronda (Malaga), where he was mayor from 1983 to 1987. He is president of the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos.
MARÍA GARCÍA ALONSO is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, UNED. She got her B.A at the Complutense University and has a Ph.D. from the UNED, Madrid. She has focused her main research on the relationship between personal memory and history in the context of political conflict, a subject on which she has conducted fieldwork in Spain, Colombia and Uruguay.
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