Jorge Camacho
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Jorge Camacho (Cordón) (born 1966) is a writer in Esperanto and Spanish.
Camacho was born in Zafra, Spain and learned Esperanto in 1980. He was a member of the Academy of Esperanto from 1992 until 2001. Since 1995 he has worked in Brussels as an interpreter for the European Union from English and Finnish into Spanish.
Camacho was elected to the Academy of Esperanto in 1992, but on August 15, 2001 he announced his resignation due to disappointment with the Esperanto movement. However, he remains active in Esperanto and continues to review literary works.
[edit] Works
Camacho became famous for his poems and short stories in the late 1980s, for which he received several prizes in the Belartaj Konkursoj de UEA. He won the Grabowski Prize in 1992.
Camacho was in the early 1990s considered a member of the so-called Ibera Skolo ("Iberian School") of Esperanto writers along with three other inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula.
In the 1990s, Camacho began to publicly oppose Giorgio Silfer for his interpretation of the political view "Raumism". He wrote La Majstro kaj Martinelli ("The Master and Martinelli"), a biting satire of Silfer (inspired by the similarly-titled novel of Mikhail Bulgakov), and criticised his ideology in La liturgio de la foiro ("The Liturgy of the Fair").
[edit] Poetry
- Ibere libere (with Miguel Fernández, Gonçalo Neves kaj Liven Dek, pseudonym of Miguel Gutiérrez, 1993)
- Celakantoj (Coelacanths; poems written in Esperanto c. 1989-1995, 2004)
- Saturno (Saturn; bilingual collection of poems written both in Spanish and Esperanto c. 1995-2004, 2004)
