Mariano Lebrón Saviñón
Mariano Lebrón Saviñón (born August 3, 1922 in Santo Domingo ; died October 18, 2014 there ) was a Dominican doctor and man of letters.
Life
Mariano Lebrón Saviñón studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and from 1946 pediatrics in Buenos Aires . He worked as a pediatrician in the Dominican Republic, directed the Clinic de Prevención Social de Santo Domingo and worked for the Ministry of Health. He was a professor of medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
Lebrón also worked as a writer and literary scholar. He is considered a representative of the literary movement of surprised poetry (poesía sorprendida). Their goal was to free Dominican poetry from its folkloric influences and to modernize it. Lebron was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1999. His history of Dominican culture is considered a standard work.
Works (selection)
- with Alberto Baeza Flores and Domingo Moreno Jimenes : Triálogo: poesía a tres voces . Ciudad Trujillo: Ediciones La Poesía Sorprendida, 1943
- Historia de la cultura dominicana . Santo Domingo, RD: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríques Ureña, 5 volumes, 1981–1982
- Vuelta al ayer: poemas . Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 1997
- Julio Jaime Julia (Ed.): Poemas de amor de Mariano Lebrón Saviñon . República Dominicana: Banco Popular, 2001
literature
- Harold Tejada: Mariano Lebrón Saviñón . Biography. Santa Fe, Argentina: El Cid Editor, 2005
Web links
- Literature by and about Mariano Lebrón Saviñón in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Mariano Lebrón Saviñón , obituary (dpa report) at WDR3 , October 19, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lebrón Saviñón, Mariano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dominican doctor and man of letters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santo Domingo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 2014 |
| Place of death | Santo Domingo |