Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Luis Cardoza y Aragón was born on 21 June 1901, or 1904 according to other sources, in Antigua Guatemala. Sent young to study medicine in Paris, he abandoned the faculty for literature and became close to André Breton and the Surrealists, to Artaud and to Miguel Ángel Asturias. A diplomat of the reformist governments of Arévalo and Árbenz, ambassador to France in 1950, he went into exile in Mexico after the coup of 1954 and became an influential art critic there. Honorary doctor of the University of San Carlos in 1970, he died on 4 September 1992.

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• PoetryMaelströmLuis Cardoza y Aragón · 1926not translated into EnglishLiterature