Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Enrique Gómez Carrillo was a dazzling Guatemalan prose stylist, novelist, and globe-trotting journalist who helped define Spanish American modernist prose alongside Rubén Darío.

Appointed to diplomatic posts in Paris, Madrid, and across Europe and Asia, Gómez Carrillo authored over eighty books, including travel chronicles of Japan, Russia, and the Middle East, and wartime reportage from the Western Front during World War I.

Celebrated across the Hispanic world as the 'Príncipe de los Cronistas', his sparkling, impressionistic prose set new standards for Spanish-language literary journalism.