Rafael Arévalo Martínez

Rafael Arévalo Martínez ( born July 25, 1884 in Guatemala City or Quetzaltenango, † June 12, 1975 ) was a Guatemalan novelist, essayist, poet and representative of the Generación de 1910 or del Cometa. He also taught as a professor of Castellano and directed for 18 years the Guatemalan National Library.

Biography

Arévalo first attended a co-educational school called Escuela Mixta de doña Concepción Aguilar, then the Colegio de don Luis Castellanos and later the Colegio de San José de los Infantes. In 1913 he founded the magazine " Juan Chapín ", named after the writer. When his best-known work is considered El Hombre que parecía un Caballo, he was considered the best-known Latin American short story first published in 1915 and for many years. End of the 1920s he became the director of the National Library, and had held this position until he was 1946 Guatemalan representative in the Pan American Union (now the Organisation of American States) appointed.

Arévalo, who was considered a political and literary opponent of Miguel Ángel Asturias, was awarded among others with the Grand Cross of the Nicaraguan " Rubén Darío " Order and the Guatemalan Quetzal Order.