Juan Enrique Avila

Juan Enrique Avila (born August 4, 1892 in San Miguel , † 1968 in San Salvador ) was a writer from El Salvador .

Avila studied science at the University of San Salvador. In chemistry he successfully completed his studies with a doctorate . He later accepted a position at this university and was u. a. Dean of the Philosophical Faculty and Full Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Between 1948 and 1950 he served as his country's foreign minister.

Juan Enrique Avila died at the age of about 76 in 1968 in San Salvador and was buried there.

reception

Avila's literary work began to turn away from modernism . One of his most famous works is "Vigía sin luz", a stylish blend of prose, poetry and play. In it, Avila deals with the story of a blind youth who learns over time to come to terms with his fate. Avila designed his prose poem “El himno sín patria” as an apology for peace and music.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• Fuentes de alma . 1917.
• The hymn without a fatherland ("El himno sín patria"). Wesemeyer Publishing House, Hamburg 1953.
• Poeta egoista . 1922.
• Los ritmos desnudos . 1925.
• Vigía sin luz . 1927.

prose

• The mundo de mi jardín . 1927.
• Los sueños de Alvarado . 1919.

literature

• Hugo Lindo: Poetas de El Salvador . In: Mundo Hispánico , vol. 13 (1960), issue 152, pp. 63-67.
• Maria Poumier: Poetas por El Salvador . Delgado, San Salvador 2008, ISBN 978-99923-837-7-3 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Verlag Erdmann, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , p. 468.