Luis Cardoza y Aragón

guatemala, essayist, art critic, revolution, author

Born Jun 21, 1901

Mexico City, Guatemala

Passed Away Sep 04, 1992 Mexico City, Guatemala

Lifespan 91 years old

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"Guatemala is a wounded wounded homeland, painted with the blood of martyrs and the green of its jungle."

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Major Guatemalan essayist, poet, and art critic who chronicled the Guatemalan Revolution and Latin American modern art.

Biographical Record

Luis Cardoza y Aragón was an eminent Guatemalan writer, diplomat, and intellectual who was a key figure in Latin American avant-garde literature.

Living in Paris during the 1920s alongside André Breton and Antonin Artaud, Cardoza returned to Guatemala to support the 1944 Revolution, founding the influential literary review 'Revista de Guatemala'.

Forced into lifelong exile in Mexico following the 1954 counter-revolution, he authored monumental treatises on modern art and his celebrated political memoir 'Guatemala, las líneas de su mano'.

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Final Resting Place

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Panteón Civil de Dolores
Mexico City, Guatemala

                         GPS: 19.4000, -99.2000                    

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