Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez was born in 1883 at Santa Rosa de Osos, in Antioquia, and grew up with his grandparents at Angostura. He left at twelve and never stopped: schoolmaster, founder of magazines, journalist, he left Colombia in 1907 for Guatemala, Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, the United States and Mexico, where he settled in 1930. He changed his name along the way, Maín Ximénez, then Ricardo Arenales, then Porfirio Barba-Jacob in 1922. His articles got him imprisoned and then expelled from several countries. He died of tuberculosis in Mexico City in 1942; his ashes returned to Colombia four years later.

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• PoetryRosas negrasPorfirio Barba-Jacob · 1933not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain