Rafael Arévalo Martínez

Rafael Arévalo Martínez was born on 25 July 1884 in Guatemala. In frail health, he could not attend school regularly, left secondary school without a diploma and educated himself. He published a first poem in a newspaper in 1905, won a short-story competition in 1908, founded and edited magazines, then in 1922 a daily newspaper with three other writers. A correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1921, he directed his country's National Library for more than twenty years and published two utopian narratives in the late thirties. He died on 12 June 1975.

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• TaleEl hombre que parecía un caballoRafael Arévalo Martínez · 1915not translated into EnglishLiterature