Carlos Wyld Ospina
Carlos Wyld Ospina | |
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| Born | June 19, 1891 Antigua Guatemala |
| Died | June 19, 1956 (aged 65) Quetzaltenango |
| Nationality | Guatemalan |
| Genre | novels, essays, poetry |
| Spouse | Amalia Chévez[1] |
Carlos Wyld Ospina (b. Antigua Guatemala, June 19, 1891 – Quetzaltenango, June 19, 1956) was a Guatemalan novelist, essayist and poet.
Biography
Wyld was born as son of Guillermo Wyld Quiñones and his wife Soledad Ospina Chaparro, a niece of the Colombian president Mariano Ospina Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was English.[2]
Wyld spent periods in Mexico and in Guatemala City, but most of his life he lived in Quetzaltenango. Together with Porfirio Barba Jacob he founded the paper Churubusc in Mexico, and was also director of the Guatemalan paperEl Zaraguat. Like Alberto Velásquez Günther, Carlos Mérida and Rafael Yela Günther, he joined the writers' group Los Líricos.[3] He was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and of the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia (Society of Geography and History).
References
- ^ Marta Elena Casaús Arzú: Las redes teosóficas de mujeres en Guatemala: la Sociedad Gabriela Mistral, 1920-1940 (Spanish) in Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 2001, p. 222.
- ^ Genealogia de la Familia de Ospina.
- ^ Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish).
External links
- Carlos Wyld Ospina in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin
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