Candelario Obeso
Candelario Obeso (born January 12, 1849 in Mompós , † July 3, 1884 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian writer .
Live and act
Obeso visited the Colegio Pinillos in his hometown. In 1866 he came to Bogotá on a scholarship for the Colegio Militar founded by General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera . From there he moved to the engineering faculty of the Universidad Nacional , where he finally began to study law and political science, which he did not complete due to financial problems.
From 1873 Obeso published in various literary magazines. In mid-1877 his collection of poems Cantos populares de mi tierra was published in Bogotá, with a foreword by Venancio González Manrique . It was the first work by a black writer to be published in Colombia .
In addition, Obeso has translated works by English, French and Italian writers such as Lord Byron , Alfred Tennyson , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Shakespeare , Alfred de Musset and Victor Hugo into Spanish.
During the Civil War of 1876 he took part in the Battle of Garrapata and was raised to the rank of sargento mayor . In 1881 he was the Colombian consul in Tours for a short time; during the second presidency of Manuel Murillo Toro he was the country's representative in Panama .
On June 29, 1884, Obeso was seriously injured with a shot in the stomach - according to his friend Juan de Dios Uribe, with the intention of committing suicide. He succumbed to his injury on July 3rd.
Works
- Lecturas para ti
- La familia de Pigmalión , novella
- Secundino, el zapatero , comedy
- Cantos populares de mi tierra , poetry
literature
- Amir Smith Córdoba: Vida y obra de Candelario Obeso , 1984
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Obeso, Candelario |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mompós |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1884 |
| Place of death | Bogotá |