Jorge Artel

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Agapita de Arcos (pseudonym Jorge Artel) (born April 27, 1909 in Cartagena , Departamento de Bolívar ; † August 20, 1994 in Malambo , Departamento del Atlántico ) was a Colombian lawyer, poet, writer, journalist and librarian of African American origin.

Life

Artel studied law, literature and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1945 from the University of Cartagena on a legal topic. Because he was active in left-wing groups, he was politically persecuted, temporarily imprisoned and spent many years in exile in Panama , Mexico , Puerto Rico and the United States . During his time in New York, he was friends with the poet Langston Hughes and translated some of his poems into Spanish. Through Hughes, Artel came into contact with the tradition of the Harlem Renaissance and the concept of Négritude . In his poems he mainly described the life of Afro-Americans on the Colombian Atlantic coast and is considered a representative of Negrismo , the Latin American variant of Négritude.

In 1972 Artel returned to Colombia from exile and became a librarian at the University of Medellín . For many years he published the column “Señales de Humo” (smoke signals) in El Columbiano magazine .

Honors

A city library in Cartagena is named after Jorge Artel.

Works

  • Tambores de la noche (poems, 1940)
  • Poetas con bota y bandera (poems, 1972)
  • Sinú, riberas de asombro jubiloso (1979)
  • No es la muerte ... es el morir (Novelle, 1979)
  • Bullerengue (dance song, set to music by José Antonio Rincón )

literature

  • Laurence E. Prescott: Remembering Jorge Artel. Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1996 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library of Congress. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Laurence E. Prescott: Remembering Jorge Artel. Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1996. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  3. ^ Biblioteca Jorge Artel. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Artel, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Arcos, Agapita (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian lyric poet, writer, journalist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cartagena , Bolivar Department , Colombia
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1994
Place of death Malambo , Departamento del Atlántico , Colombia