Candelario Obeso

Candelario Obeso was born on 12 January 1849 in Mompox, the natural son of a white lawyer and a Black washerwoman. His school closed during the war of 1863 and his education passed to a private tutor. A scholarship took him in 1866 to the military college in Bogotá, then to the university, where he began engineering, law and political science without being able to finish any of these studies, for lack of money. He lived by translation, rendering Hugo, Byron, Musset, Shakespeare and Goethe into Spanish, and also wrote two novels. He died on 3 July 1884 in Bogotá, aged thirty-five.

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• PoetryCantos populares de mi tierraCandelario Obeso · 1877not translated into EnglishLiterature