Félix de Guarania
Félix de Guarania (actually Félix Giménez Gómez ; born November 20, 1924 in Paraguarí , † March 14, 2011 in Lambaré ) was a writer and one of the most important language scholars on Guaraní from Paraguay as well as a staunch and militant socialist .
biography
Félix's parents were poor farmers who moved to the city to improve their son's educational opportunities. He was first arrested in 1941. He began studying medicine in 1944, but was detained for six months after his play Mboriahu rekove was published in Puesto Muñeca , a camp for political prisoners in the Paraguayan Chaco . In 1946 he enrolled to study law at the Universidad Nacional , but was arrested again and spent two years in prison in Asunción . In 1960 de Guarania tried to study the humanities, but was expelled from Paraguay in 1963.
During his time in exile, he traveled from Argentina via Havana to Europe and finally to the USSR , where he worked at the Faculty of Philology at Patrice Lumumba University and for Radio Moscow .
After the fall of the Stroessner dictatorship, de Guarania returned to Paraguay, where he took up teaching and writing books. In 2008 he withdrew from teaching due to his diabetes , but continued his studies and the publication of his texts until his death in 2011.
His work also included translations of classical works, the Bible and the Paraguayan national anthem into Guaraní and a dictionary between Spanish and Guaraní.
Honors
De Guarania has received several honors in the course of his life, including the 1992 Festival del lago de Ypacaraí , the appointment to hijo dilecto de la Ciudad de Asunción in 2005, an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional in Asunción in 2007 and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit of Paraguay in 2009.
Web links
- ABC Color : Valioso aporte sigue dando Félix de Guarania a la cultura paraguaya , September 5, 2009
- ultimahora.com: Félix de Guarania, símbolo de selva y bandera , March 21, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guarania, Félix de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giménez Gómez, Félix (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan writer, linguist and socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paraguarí |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2011 |
| Place of death | Lambaré |