Amado Nervo
Amado Nervo ( born August 27, 1870 in Tepic / Nayarit, † May 24 1919 in Montevideo) was a Mexican writer, journalist and diplomat.
Nervo visited in 1884, the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga in Jacona 1889 and began studying law at the Seminario de Zamora. A study of theology, which he began in 1891 where he broke off in the same year and went to Mazatlan, where he wrote for the Correo de la Tarde. In 1894 he went to the capital and there wrote stories, sketches, humorous articles, theater reviews, book reviews, articles and reports for newspapers such as El Mundo Ilustrado, El Nacional, El Imparcial and El Mundo.
1895 appeared Nervos first novel El Bachiller, 1898, the volume of poetry Misticas. 1899 his Zarzuela Consuelo was premiered with the music of Antonio Cuyás at the Teatro Central of Mexico. As correspondent of El Mundo he took in 1900 at the World Exhibition in Paris. Here he met Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde and Jean Moréas know and met with many Latin American artists such as Carlos Diaz Dufóo, Justo Sierra, Luis Quintanilla, Gustavo E. Campa, Jesús F. Contreras, Guillermo Valencia, Manuel Ugarte and Enrique Gómez Carrillo.
In 1902 he returned to Mexico and published the poetry volumes El Exodo y Las Flores del Camino and Lira Heroica. He worked again for El Mundo, El Imparcial and El Mundo Ilustrado, and became a professor of Spanish language at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. Was published in 1905 the book of poetry Los Jardines Interiores. In the same year he joined as Secretary of the Spanish Embassy in Madrid in the diplomatic service.
Produced some of his most important works, including En Voz Baja, Juana de Asbaje, Serenidad, La Amada Inmóvil, Elevación and Plenitud in Spain. In 1914 he was dismissed from the diplomatic service, and lived in difficult financial circumstances until he was in 1918 sent as Plenipotentiary of Mexico to Argentina and Uruguay. He died in 1919 in Montevideo. His body was transferred to Mexico and buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres. Also Nervos brothers Luis and Rodolfo Nervo became known as a writer.
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