Carlos Wyld Ospina

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Wyld and the second or maternal family name is Ospina.
Carlos Wyld Ospina
Born(1891-06-19)June 19, 1891
Antigua Guatemala
DiedJune 19, 1956(1956-06-19) (aged 65)
Quetzaltenango
Genrenovels, essays, poetry
SpouseAmalia Chévez[1]

Carlos Wyld Ospina (June 19, 1891, Antigua Guatemala – June 19, 1956, Quetzaltenango) was a Guatemalan novelist, essayist and poet.

Biography

Wyld was born as son of Guillermo Wyld Quiñones and his wife Soledad Ospina Chaparro, a niece of the Colombian president Mariano Ospina Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was English.[2]

Wyld spent periods in Mexico and in Guatemala City, but most of his life he lived in Quetzaltenango. Together with Porfirio Barba Jacob he founded the paper Churubusc in Mexico, and was also director of the Guatemalan paperEl Zaraguat. Like Alberto Velásquez Günther, Carlos Mérida and Rafael Yela Günther, he joined the writers' group Los Líricos.[3] He was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and of the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia (Society of Geography and History).

References

  1. ^ Marta Elena Casaús Arzú: Las redes teosóficas de mujeres en Guatemala: la Sociedad Gabriela Mistral, 1920-1940 Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish) in Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 2001, p. 222.
  2. ^ Genealogia de la Familia de Ospina.
  3. ^ "Carlos Wyld Ospina". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2009-05-12. (Spanish).