Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

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Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (born September 16, 1908 in Santa Ana , † November 10, 1979 in San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran journalist, poet, anthropologist and linguist.

Coming from a coffee plantation family, Geoffroy began studying medicine in San Salvador. In 1931 he went to Guatemala and from there to Mexico, where he studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma until 1937 (the title of his thesis was Teoría marxista del Estado ), then anthropology and linguistics, with a particular interest in indigenous Central American languages.

Together with several journalists and authors, he founded the magazine La Tribuna in El Salvador in 1941 . After the overthrow of the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez , he published a series of articles in the Tribuna , as a result of which he had to go into exile after Osmín Aguirre y Salinas came to power and lived first in Guatemala, then until 1957 in Mexico.

After this time he focused on his anthropological and linguistic interests. He taught at the Universidad de El Salvador and the Universidad Centroamericana and wrote articles for encyclopedias on the Nawat language of the Pipilen in El Salvador. With works such as Yulculcat (1965) and Los nietos del jaguar (1977), he incorporated elements of indigenous poetics from the pre-Hispanic period into his work. He was elected a member of the Academia Salvadoreña de la Lengua and was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cultura in 1977 .

Works

  • La búsqueda. Diario de Santa Ana (1927)
  • Canciones en el viento (1933)
  • Rumbo (1935)
  • Para cantar mañana (1935)
  • Patría, poesía (1944)
  • Esperanza geografía del dolor (1946)
  • Sin Muerte ya (1947)
  • Trenos del exiliado (1949)
  • Juan pueblo vuelve a cantar (1950)
  • Tercera canción sin sombra (1956)
  • Copias a Juan sin patria (1956)
  • Cartas sin fechas para tí (1957)
  • Aquino (1959)
  • Solo amor (Antology, 1963)
  • Yulcuicat (1965)
  • Elegía rota (1969)
  • Esther dolor inmenso (1976)
  • Los nietos del jaguar (1977)
  • La lengua del nahuat (1977)
  • Vida, pasión y muerte del antihombre (1978)

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personal data
SURNAME Geoffroy Rivas, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran journalist, poet, anthropologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana (El Salvador)
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1979
Place of death San Salvador