Ermilo Abreu Gómez
Illustration — Bust of Ermilo Abreu Gómez in Mérida Ermilo Abreu Gómez (September 18, 1894 in Mérida – July 14, 1971 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, journalist and lecturer. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States.
Also recorded as Ermilo Abreu Gomez
Ermilo Abreu Gómez
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- Born
- 1894 · Mérida.
- Died
- 1971 · Mexico City.
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Occupation
- writer · journalist · literary critic
- Education
- Escuela Normal Superior de México
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — Bust of Ermilo Abreu Gómez in Mérida Ermilo Abreu Gómez (September 18, 1894 in Mérida – July 14, 1971 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, journalist and lecturer. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States.
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His literary work was varied, over a long period of time: • La Xtabay. 1919 • El Corcovado. 1924 • Clásicos. Románticos. Modernos (1934) • Canek. 1940 • in English: Canek. History and legend of a Maya hero.; transl. & introd. by Mario L. Dávila, Carter Wilson. University of California Press, Berkeley 1979 (cf. Google books) • Héroes Mayas. Zamná. Cocom. Canek. 1942 • in German: Geschichten von den Maja-Indianern. transl. Ludwig Renn. Aufbau, Weimar 1948 • Un Loro y tres Golondrinas (1946) • Quetzalcóatl, sueño y vigilia (1947) • Naufragio de indios (1951) • La conjura de Xinúm (1958) • Cuentos para contar al fuego (1959) • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, bibliografía y biblioteca (1934) • Diálogo del buen decir (1961) The interest that Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz woke up in him became the passion of his life and it also led him to become her main critic. His most well-known work is Canek (1940), a story about the Maya revolutionary. As a curiosity, the commentary of the author on the book Canek: "And Nymph lost the best pages!". (Nymph was his wife who typed the original).
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1894
Ermilo Abreu Gómez born at Mérida.
1971
Ermilo Abreu Gómez died at Mexico City.
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