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Alfonso Cortés

Died in 1969

Alfonso Cortés was born in León on 9 December 1893. A journalist, he won in 1921 the first poetry prize at the floral games of Quetzaltenango, in Guatemala, then settled in the house where Rubén Darío had spent his childhood, which the poet's widow had entrusted to him. He never stopped writing, died in León on 3 February 1969 and was buried in the cathedral, near Darío.

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