Jorge Carrera Andrade

Jorge Carrera Andrade

Jorge Carrera Andrade (born September 28, 1903 in Quito ; † November 7, 1978 ibid) was an Ecuadorian poet, writer and diplomat.

Life

The son of a judge at the Supreme Court of Ecuador and the daughter of a general embarked on a political career immediately after graduating in 1923. After a short time as a representative of the Partido Liberal in Congress, he was involved in founding the Socialist Party before going to France as a diplomat .

Memorial plaque in Paris

In the following decades he held diplomatic posts a. a. in Brazil, China, Colombia and Japan. From 1940 to 1944 he was the Ecuadorian Consul General in the USA. Later he was ambassador to the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Great Britain. From 1952 to 1958 he lived in Paris, where he worked for UNESCO . In 1966 he was briefly foreign minister of his country under President Otto Arosemena , but gave up this office because of differences with Arosemena.

From 1968 to 1970 Andrade lived in Long Island , taught at Stony Brook University and gave lectures at Harvard University and Vassar College . In the last years of his life he ran a cultural institution in Quito.

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Andrade is still considered to be the most important poet of Ecuador. His first volume of poetry, Estanque Inefable, was published in Quito as early as 1922 . Further poetry and prose works followed. His early poetry is characterized by the consistent implementation of visual impressions and influenced by surrealism . Political and social issues have come to the fore since 1935 ( El tiempo manual ). When he settled in 1940 as Consul General in San Francisco , an intensive literary correspondence with writers such as John Peale Bishop , John Malcolm Brinnin , Dudley Fitts , HR Hays , John Hersey , Muna Lee , James Laughlin , Seymour Lawrence , Thomas Merton , Archibald began MacLeish , Wallace Stevens , Donald Walsh and William Carlos Williams .

Since 1943 essays have appeared both by and about Andrade (HR Hays: Jorge Carrera Andrade: Magician of Mirrors ) in American literary magazines. His first book, Secret Country , was published in New York in 1946 , translated by Muna Lee. In the following years, Andrade's essays and articles appeared in the countries where he was in the diplomatic service. In France two books appeared in bilingual (Spanish-French) editions.

The late work since Lugar de Origen (1945) is characterized by the view of the native tropical landscape.

In the 1950s, Andrade's works were increasingly translated into English. 1950 appeared in England in the translation of Vistor of Mist in the translation of GR Coulthard , Thomas Merton, John Malcolm Brinnin and Donald Walsh translated his poems for magazines and anthologies, J. M. Cohen included his works in the Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (England, 1956), Willis Barnstone in Modern European Poetry (New York, 1966). His works have also appeared in Danish, French and German anthologies. HR Hays published Selected Poems in 1972 , and in 1973 a selection of his lectures appeared under the title Reflections On Latin American Literature .

In 1976 his Obra poética completa was published under his direction at the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamín Carrión" , and the Academia de la Lengua of Ecuador suggested him for the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year. In 1977 he received the Premio Eugenio Espejo from the Ecuadorian government.

Works

• Estanque Inefable , 1922
• La guirnalda del silencio , 1926
• Boletines de mar y tierra (with a foreword by Gabriela Mistral ), 1930
• Latitudes , 1934
• El tiempo manual , 1935
• Biografía para uso de los pájaros , 1937
• Microgramas , 1940
• Mirador Terrestre
• La República del Ecuador, encrucijada de América
• Lugar de Origen 1945
• The visitante de niebla y otros poemas
• Rostros y climas , 1948
• Familia de la Noche
• La Tierra Siempre Verde , 1955
• Viajes por países y libros , 1961
• Antología poética de Pierre Valéry (translation)
• Poesía Francesa Contemporánea (translation)

literature

• Carrera Andrade. In: The Brockhaus Literature. Vol. 1: A-FT, Mannheim 1988, p. 366.

Web links

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