Joaquín Pasos

Joaquín Pasos was born in Granada, Nicaragua, on 14 May 1914. Still a pupil at the Centroamérica school, he was introduced in 1931 as a poet in the avant-garde page of a newspaper and became the youngest member of the movement. A law student who did not finish, he edited magazines, contributed to the satirical magazine that attacked the Somoza dictatorship and was imprisoned several times. He taught himself English, wrote a farce with José Coronel Urtecho and died in Managua on 20 January 1947, aged thirty-two, before the publication of his only collection.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryPoemas de un jovenJoaquín Pasos · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature