Manuel Maples Arce

Manuel Maples Arce (born May 1, 1900 Papantla , Veracruz , † June 26, 1981 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican ambassador , critic and poet .

Life

He studied from 1916 in Veracruz, in 1919 he moved to Mexico City, where he graduated from UNAM in 1925 with a law degree. He later studied French literature and art history at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1925 he worked for the Mexican Ministry of Education. In 1921 he was one of the founders of the literary movement Estridentista .

From September 8, 1943 to March 1, 1944, Maples Arce was chargé d'affaires, based in Brussels, with the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands.

In 1942 Manuel Ávila Camacho Maples Arce sent as ambassador to the Vichy regime, which the Axis powers suppressed.

Publications

Rag (Tintas de abanico), Catalan Hermanos, 1920.
Andamios interiores (Poemas radiográficos), Editorial Cultura, 1922.
Urbe (Super-poema bolchevique en 5 cantos), Andrés Botas e hijos, 1924.
Poemas interdictos, Ediciones Horizontes, 1927.
Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna, Poligráfica Tiberina, Rome 1940
Paisaje en la literatura mexicana, Editores Porrúa, 1944.
El arte mexicano moderno, 1945.
Siete cuentos mexicanos, Biblioteca Selecta, 1946.
Memorial de la sangre, Talleres Graeficos de la Nación, 1947
Peregrinación por el arte de México, Imprenta López, 1952.
Incitaciones y valoraciones, Cuadernos Mexicanos, 1957.
Ensayos japoneses, Editorial Cultura, 1959
A la orilla de este río, Editorial Plenitud, 1964.
Soberana juventud, Editorial Plenitud, 1967.
Las semillas del tiempo: obra poética 1919-1980, México FCE 1981
Mi vida por el mundo, Universidad Veracruzana, 1983

predecessor	Office	successor
Gustavo F. Villatoro	Mexican ambassador in Bucharest June 1, 1938 to December 11, 1942	Mariano Armendáriz del Castillo
Gustavo F. Villatoro	Mexican ambassador in Rome June 1, 1938 to December 12, 1941	Mariano Armendáriz del Castillo
Gustavo Luders de Negri	Mexican Ambassador in The Hague September 13, 1943 to March 1, 1944	Gustavo Luders de Negri
Luis A. Bobadilla	Mexican Ambassador to Colon November 1, 1944 to April 1, 1949	Eduardo Morillo Safa-Briones

predecessor	Office	successor
Pedro de Alba Pérez	Mexican Ambassador to Santiago de Chile May 13, 1949 to April 18, 1951	Mariano Armendáriz del Castillo
Mariano Armendáriz del Castillo	Mexican Ambassador to Bogotá February 22, 1951 to June 25, 1952	Miguel González Taush
Octavio Irineo Paz y Lozano	Mexican Ambassador to Tokyo September 12, 1952 to March 1, 1956	Germán L. Rennow Hay
	Mexican Ambassador to Jakarta April 21, 1954 to February 28, 1956	Javier Rojo Gomez

predecessor	Office	successor
Salvador Pardo Bolland	Mexican Ambassador to Quebec March 22, 1956 to January 3, 1959	Rafael de la Colina Riquelme
Germán L. Rennow Hay	Mexican ambassador in Oslo October 6, 1959 to October 1, 1962	Rodolfo Usigli Wainer
Rodolfo Usigli Wainer	Mexican Ambassador to Beirut November 17, 1962 to September 1, 1967	Bernardo Reyes Morales

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Maples Arce, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mexican ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Papantla Veracruz
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1981
Place of death	Mexico city

[1] Birth certificate of Manuel Maples Arce (transcription)

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