Jorge Carrera Andrade

Jorge Carrera Andrade ( born September 28, 1903 in Quito, † November 7, 1978 ) was an Ecuadorian poet, writer and diplomat.

The son of a judge of the Supreme Court of Ecuador and the daughter of a general struck immediately after his studies in 1923 a political career. After a short time as a representative of the Liberal Party in Congress, he was involved in the founding of the Socialist Party, before he went to France as a diplomat.

In the following decades he had diplomatic posts, among others held in Brazil, China, Colombia and Japan. From 1940 to 1944 he was Ecuadorian Consul General in the United States. Later, he was ambassador to the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. From 1952 to 1958 he lived in Paris, where he worked for UNESCO. In 1966, he was under President Otto Arosemena briefly foreign minister of his country, gave this office, however, because of differences with Arosemena on.

From 1968 to 1970 Andrade lived in Long Iceland, taught at Stony Brook University and gave lectures at Harvard University and Vassar College. In his last years he led a cultural institution in Quito.

In 1922 appeared Andrade's first volume of poetry Estanque Inefable in Quito. More poetry and prose works followed. As he settled in 1940 as Consul General in San Francisco, immediately began an intensive literary correspondence with writers like John Peale Bishop, John Malcolm Brinnin, Dudley Fitts, HR Hays, John Hersey, Muna Lee, James Laughlin, Seymour Lawrence, Thomas Merton, Archibald MacLeish, Wallace Stevens, Donald Walsh and William Carlos Williams.

Since 1943 published essays both to and from over Andrade (HR Hays: Jorge Carrera Andrade: Magician of Mirrors ) in American literary journals. 1946 appeared in New York, his first book in English Secret Country, translated by Muna Lee. In the following years published essays and articles Andrades in each of the countries where he was staying in the diplomatic service. In France, two books were published in bilingual (Spanish - French) editions.

In the 1950s, Andrade's works have been increasingly translated into English. Appeared in 1950 in England Vistor of Mist in the translation of GR Coulthard, Thomas Merton, John Malcolm Brinnin and Donald Walsh translated his poems for magazines and anthologies, J. M. Cohen took of his works in the Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (England, 1956), Willis Barnstone in the Modern European Poetry (New York, 1966) to. Also in Danish, French and German anthologies of his works. H.R. Hays published 1972 Selected Poems, and in 1973 published a selection of his lectures under the title Reflections On Latin American Literature.

Appeared in 1976 under his leadership, his Obra completa poética at the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana " Benjamín Carrión ," and the Academia de la Lengua of Ecuador beat him before in the same year for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1977 he was awarded the Premio Eugenio Espejo of the Ecuadorian government.

Works

  • Estanque Inefable, 1922
  • La guirnalda del silencio, 1926
  • Boletines de mar y tierra ( with a foreword by Gabriela Mistral ), 1930
  • Latitudes, 1934
  • El tiempo manual, 1935
  • Biografía para uso de los pájaros, 1937
  • Microgramas, 1940
  • Mirador Terrestre
  • La República del Ecuador, Encrucijada de América
  • Lugar de Origen
  • El visitante de niebla y otros poemas
  • Rostros y Climas, 1948
  • Familia de la Noche
  • La Tierra Verde Siempre, 1955
  • Viajes por países y libros, 1961
  • Antología poética de Pierre Valéry ( translation )
  • Poesía Francesa Contemporánea ( translation )
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