Jorge Isaacs

Jorge Isaacs was born on 1 April 1837 in Cali, the son of an English Jewish father from Jamaica, converted and naturalised, who had grown rich in the gold mines before buying haciendas in the Cauca valley. Civil wars and debts forced the family to sell them at auction. He himself was in turn a soldier, journalist, politician and public works inspector; he wrote only one novel, after a collection of verse. He died on 17 April 1895 in Ibagué.

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• NovelMaria: A South American RomanceMaríaJorge Isaacs · 1867LiteraturePublic domain