Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde
Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde (* 1846 in Caracas , † 1892 in La Guaira ) was a Venezuelan translator and poet .
Life
Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde was born in Caracas. His family had problems with the Venezuelan government, so Pérez Bonalde lived in exile from 1861 to 1864 and again from 1870 to 1876 . Since 1877 Pérez Bonalde traveled to the USA , Puerto Rico , Europe , Asia and Africa , where he worked as a trader. In 1890 he returned to Venezuela. The poem Vuelta a la Patria is about this return and became his most famous poem.
Pérez Bonalde lost a daughter prematurely. He wrote the elegiac poem Flor in memory of her.
Destroyed by morphine, Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde died in La Guaira in 1892.
Artistic creation
Pérez Bonalde was a late Romantic poet. He is also seen as a forerunner of modernism . Pérez Bonalde mastered the German, English, French, Danish, Portuguese, Italian and Chinese languages and translated a. a. the works of Heine and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe into Spanish.
Works
- Estrofas (1877, German stanzas )
- Ritmos (1880, German rhythms )
- Poema del Niágara (1880, German poem of Niagara )
- Vuelta a la Patria (German return to home )
- Flor (German flower )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pérez Bonalde, Juan Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan poet, translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caracas , Venezuela |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1892 |
| Place of death | La Guaira , Venezuela |