Amado Nervo

Amado Nervo (born August 27, 1870 in Tepic / Nayarit , † May 24, 1919 in Montevideo ) was a Mexican writer, journalist and diplomat.

Nervo attended the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga in Jacona from 1884 and began to study law at the Seminario de Zamora in 1889 . A theology study, which he began there in 1891, he broke off in the same year and went to Mazatlán, where he wrote for the Correo de la Tarde . In 1894 he went to the state capital and wrote stories, skits, humorous articles, theater reviews, book reviews, articles and reports for newspapers such as El Mundo Ilustrado , El Nacional , El Imparcial and El Mundo .

In 1895 Nervo's first novel El Bachiller was published , and in 1898 the poetry book Misticas . In 1899 his Zarzuela Consuelo with the music of Antonio Cuyás was premiered at the Teatro Central of Mexico . As a correspondent for El Mundo , he took part in the 1900 World's Fair in Paris . Here he got to know Paul Verlaine , Oscar Wilde and Jean Moréas and met with numerous 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 books of poetry El Exodo y Las Flores del Camino and Lira Heroica . He worked again for El Mundo , El Imparcial and El Mundo Ilustrado and became professor of Spanish language at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria . In 1905 the volume of poetry Los Jardines Interiores was published . In the same year he joined the diplomatic service as secretary of the Spanish embassy in Madrid.

Some of his most important works were created in Spain, including En Voz Baja , Juana de Asbaje , Serenidad , La Amada Inmóvil , Elevación and Plenitud . In 1914 he was dismissed from the diplomatic service and lived in difficult financial circumstances until in 1918 he was sent to Argentina and Uruguay as Mexican Ambassador Plenipotentiary. He died in Montevideo in 1919. His body was transferred to Mexico and buried in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres . Nervo's brothers Luis and Rodolfo Nervo were also known as writers.

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SURNAME	Nervo, Amado
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican writer, journalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tepic
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1919
Place of death	Montevideo