Jorge Enrique Adoum

Jorge Enrique Adoum ( born June 29, 1926 in Ambato, † July 3, 2009 in Quito ) was an Ecuadorian writer, politician, essayist and diplomat. His most famous work is the 1976 novel published Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda, which was filmed in 1996 by Camilo Luzuriaga. His oeuvre, in which he always treated social issues, was nominated for the Premio Cervantes.

Biography

Jorge Enrique Adoum was born in 1926 in Ambato. His father was Jorge Elías Adoum, also known as Mago Jefa, intellectual, naturopath and esoteric Lebanese origin, who was like his son worked as a writer. Adoum interested very early in literature. After receiving lessons take place in an elementary school with a private tutor, he attended the Colegio San Gabriel in Quito. During his youth Adoum read the works of Alexandre Dumas ', Jules Verne and Dostoevsky thrilled. He graduated in the bachillerato, at the Instituto Nacional Mejía, where it is a literature teacher named Humberto Salvador had been instructed in the world of Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and especially in Marxism and psychoanalysis.

Jorge Enrique Adoum studied at the Universidad Central del Ecuador law and philosophy. He later moved for political reasons ( to activities against the dictatorship of Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río support ) to Chile, where he continued to study at the Universidad de Santiago.

In Santiago learned Adoum also know Pablo Neruda, whose friend and private secretary he was then. This post he held for two years. Neruda said on October 16, 1952 compared to a journalist, the best poet of Latin America was Ecuadorians. Here he was referring to Adoum, who was at that time only 25 years old.

1948 Adoum returned back to Ecuador, where he held several positions in the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. In 1949 he published his first book amargo Ecuador, which was commented by Pablo Neruda and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. In 1952 he was awarded for the first two parts of his main work cuadernos Los de la tierra the Premio Nacional de Poesía de Ecuador.

Adoum was culture editor of a daily newspaper in Quito, worked on various Latin American cultural magazines and was a professor of literature at various universities. He has published more poetic works, including Notas del hijo prodigo (1953) and Relato del extranjero ( 1955). There was a band with critical essays ( Poesía del siglo XX), which contains, among other things, studies on Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, and César Vallejo. For his work Trajo Dios la sombra (1960), the third part of Cuadernos de la tierra, he was awarded the Premio de Poesía of the Casa de las Américas in Havana. Then came the fourth part of El dorado y las ocupaciones nocturnas. In November 1961 Adoum was appointed Director Nacional de Cultura, a post he held until 1963. This year Adoum traveled as part of a cultural project of UNESCO Egypt, India, Japan and Israel.

Then the writer in Paris was, where he first worked as a lecturer in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan-speaking literature for the Gallimard publishing house, then as a journalist for radio and television in France and finally as a translator for the UN and the ILO in Geneva worked. There he published in 1969 and his play El sol bajo las patas de los caballos, first in French, but it was later translated into six other languages ​​and performed in many European and American countries. Then Adoum returned to Paris, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Correo de la UNESCO until 1987.

In 1973 he published in Madrid Informe sobre la personal situación, 1976 in Mexico the novel Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda. In that year he also won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, which was first awarded in order to a foreign writer. In 1979 in Barcelona, ​​the poetry book No son todos los que están. In the same year a new piece entitled La subida a los appeared Infiernos, which first appeared in German and later in Spanish.

1987 Adoum returned back to Ecuador. Two years later he received for his oeuvre the Premio Nacional de Cultura Eugenio Espejo, the highest cultural award of the Ecuadorian government. 1994 honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, he was awarded in the Dominican Republic, as he had just de cerca y de memoria, recuerdos de lecturas, autores y lugares published. In 1995 he was a finalist in the competition for the Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Venezuela.

In 1996, the film adaptation of Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda in the Ecuadorian cinema.

More Releases from Jorge Enrique Adoum were: Sin ambages - textos y Contexts ( essays, 1989), El tiempo y las palabras (1992 ), El amor y otros poemas desenterrado (1993 ), Ciudad sin ángel (novel, Mexico 1995), Los amores fugaces, (Quito 1998), Ecuador: Señas particulares (Quito 1998), Guayasamín, el hombre, la obra la crítica (Nuremberg 1998) ... ni están todos los que son ( Quito 1999).

In addition, Jorge Enrique Adoum translated the poetry of TS Eliot, Langston Hughes, Jacques Prévert, Giannis Ritsos, Vinícius de Moraes, Nazim Hikmet, Fernando Pessoa, Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney into Spanish.

In June 2005 he was awarded the Premio in Venezuela Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos.

Adoum died in July 2009 in Quito and is buried next to Oswaldo Guayasamín under the " tree of life" in the " Chapel of the people."

Political commitment

Signed on 26 January 2006 Jorge Enrique Adoum, together with other internationally known writers and other public figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Benedetti, Ernesto Sabato, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Pablo Armando Fernández, Carlos Monsiváis, Luis Rafael Sánchez Mayra Montero, Ana Lydia Vega and Pablo Milanes a demand for independence for Puerto Rico. This was during the Congress of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean for the independence of Puerto Rico ( Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño por la Independencia de Puerto Rico) provided, which took place from 17 to 19 November 2006 in Panama. The demand supported a resolution that would assure the island nation the right to promote the independence of the United States. 22 political parties in Latin America signed the resolution.

Trivia

According to rumors, the real last name of the Ecuadorian writer Adum (without the 'o' ). Maybe Adoum wanted his name to sound French, but he lived and worked for many years in France.

Works

Poetry

  • Amargo Ecuador, Quito, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1949
  • Carta para Alejandra, Quito, La Andariega, 1952
  • Los Cuadernos de La Tierra: I. Los Orígenes, Quito, CCE, 1952
  • Los Cuadernos de La Tierra: El Enemigo II y la Mañana, Quito, CCE, 1952
  • Notas del Hijo prodigo, Quito, Rumiñahui, 1953
  • Relato del Extranjero, Quito, Ediciones del Ateneo Ecuatoriano, 1955
  • Los Cuadernos de la Tierra: III. Dios la Sombra Trajo, Quito, 1959
  • Los Cuadernos de la Tierra: El Dorado IV y las Ocupaciones Nocturna, Quito, CCE, 1961
  • Yo me fui con tu nombre por la tierra, Quito, Edición Clandestina, 1964
  • Informe Sobre la Situación staff, Madrid, Aguaribay, 1973
  • No Son Todos los que están ( Poemas, ), Barcelona, ​​Seix Barral, 1979
  • Poesía Viva del Ecuador - Siglo XX, Quito, Grialbo Ecuatoriana, 1990
  • El tiempo y las palabras ( Poemas ), Quito, Libresa, 1992
  • El amor y otros poemas desenterrado, Quito, El Conejo, 1993
  • Postales del trópico con mujeres, Valencia, Episteme Ediciones SL, 1997
  • Están todos los que ni ... but, Quito, Eskeletra Editorial, 1999
  • Y en el cielo un ... huequito para mirar a Quito. La cuidad, la poesía, Quito, Archipelago, 2004

Prose

  • Entre Marx y Una Mujer Desnuda, México, Siglo XXI Editores, 1976
  • Ciudad sin Ángel, Mexico, Siglo XXI Editores, 1995
  • Los Amores fugaces ( Memorias imaginarias ), Quito, Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve - 1997
  • Ecuador: Señas particulares, 1998

Drama

  • El sol bajo las patas de los caballos, Havana, Casa de las Américas, 1972 ( Eng.: The sun under the horses' hooves, Borkeim -Merten, Lamu Verlag, 1979)
  • La subida a los Infiernos, Quito, CCE, 1981 ( Eng.: The descent into hell Borheim -Merten, Lamug Verlag, 1979)

Essays

  • Poesía del siglo XX, Quito, CCE, 1957
  • La gran literatura del ecuatoriana 30, Quito, El Conejo, 1984
  • Sin ambages ( Textos y Contexts ), Quito, Planeta Letraviva, 1989
  • Ecuador: Señas particulares, Quito, Eskeletra Editorial, 1997
  • Guayasamín: el hombre, la obra la crítica / The Face of Our Time - Guayasamín, Nuremberg, DA Verlag Other, 1998
  • Mirando a todas partes, Quito, Ecuador Seix Barral - Planeta, 1999
  • De cerca de memoria y - lecturas, autores, lugares, Havana Editorial Arte y Literatura, 2002
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