Fernando Soto Aparicio (October 1, 1933 – May 2, 2016) was a Colombian poet, storyteller, playwright, novelist, librettist, and screenwriter.

Fernando Soto Aparicio spent his childhood in Santa Rosa de Viterbo.

In total, he wrote about 70 literary works, among them novels, poems, books of short stories, as well as theatre plays.

[2] The works of Fernando Soto Aparicio explore society in all its facets possible to portraying the relationship of individuals with the powers established (religious, legal, economical, military).

Among his prolific work there are novels, books of poems, short stories, children's literature, essays, plays and scripts for film and television.