Pablo Antonio Cuadra

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Pablo Antonio Cuadra Cardenal

Born November 4, 1912[1]
Managua, Nicaragua
Died January 2, 2002
Managua, Nicaragua
Occupation Poet, essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist
Nationality Nicaraguan
Influences

Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua.[2]

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[edit] Early life and career

Cuadra was born on November 4, 1912, in Managua but spent the majority of his life in Granada. Cuadra was the son of Carlos Cuadra Pasos and Merceditas Cardenal. Cuadro is first cousin-of Ernesto Cardenal. He married Adilia Mercedes Bendaña Ramírez.

[edit] Vanguardia movement

In 1931 Cuadra, along with José Coronel Urtecho, Joaquín Pasos, and other writers, founded the Vanguardia literary movement in Granada.[3]

[edit] Later career

Cuadra's Poemas nicaragüenses was published in 1934. He opposed the American intervention against Augusto César Sandino in the 1930s and broke with the Somoza dynasty in the 1940s. Cuadra later became an outspoken advocate for Nicaragua's poor, embracing liberation theology and other intellectual currents the Somoza government considered subversive.[2] He later also criticized the post-1979 Sandinista National Liberation Front régime for stifling the independence of Nicaragua's culture [4] and for several years thereafter he lived in self-imposed exile in Costa Rica and Texas.

In 1954 he became co-director of La Prensa newspaper alongside his cousin and partner, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, who was assassinated by Somoza supporters in 1978.[2] He was briefly jailed for his opposition to the FSLN in 1956.[5] In 1961 he became editor of the influential journal El Pez y La Serpiente (the fish and the serpent),[6] which was highly influential in Latin America.

[edit] Death

He died on January 2, 2002 in Managua, following a respiratory illness. He was buried on January 4 in Granada, where he spent the majority of his life.[5]

[edit] Awards

Cuadra won many literary honors, among them the Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Cultural Prize, awarded by the Organization of American States in 1991.[2]

[edit] Published works

Poetry
  • Poemas nicaragüenses (1934)[3]
  • Canto temporal (1943)
  • Poemas con un crepúsculo a cuestas (1949)
  • La tierra prometida (1952)
  • El jaguar y la luna (1959)
  • Poesía (1964)
  • Cantos de Cifar (1971)
  • Esos rostros que asoman en la multitud (1976)
  • Siete árboles contra el atardecer (1980)
Stories
  • Agosto (1970, 1972)
  • Vuelva, Güegüense (1970)
  • Cuentos escogidos (1999)
Essays
  • Hacia la cruz del sur (1936)
  • Promisión de México y otros ensayos (1945)
  • Entre la cruz y la espada (1946)
  • Torres de Dios (1958, 1985)
  • El nicaragüense (1967)
  • Otro rapto de Europa (1976)
  • Aventura literaria del mestizaje (1987)
Theater
  • Por los caminos van los campesinos (1957)
  • El coro y la máscara (1991)




[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002)", ACI Prensa. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. (Spanish) 
  2. ^ a b c d Kinzer, Stephen. "Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 89, Nicaraguan Poet", New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. 
  3. ^ a b "Pablo Antonio Cuadra", Dariana.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. (Spanish) 
  4. ^ "Pablo Antonio Cuadra: Notes on Culture in the New Nicaragua," translated by Mark Falcoff, in Robert S. Leiken and Barry Rubin, The Central American Crisis Reader.
  5. ^ a b "Nicaraguan nationalist poet Cuadra dies at 89", The Associated Press. Retrieved on 2007-10-15. 
  6. ^ "Pablo Antonio Cuadra", The Columbia Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.