Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian fiction writer and playwright best known for her novel Señora de la miel.
[3] Buitrago has a sister Letty, who has worked as her editor and literary agent, and a brother Luis.
[4] According to Letty, Fanny "began to read and write at a very early age, under the influence of two indefatigable readers: her father, Luis Buitrago, and her maternal grandfather, Tomás González".
[7] She generally avoids overt political messages, although she has dealt with the civil unrest of la Violencia, preferring to focus on broken homes and families which act as metaphors for a country suffering great upheaval.
In 1964, she won the Cali Theater Festival Prize for her play El hombre de paja (Scarecrow).