How to Pronounce Luis Cardoza y Aragón
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Jun 21, 1901 Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez Department, Guatemala Died on 04 Sep 1992 (aged 91)
Guatemalan writer and diplomat
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About Luis Cardoza Y Aragón
- Luis Cardoza y Aragón (June 21, 1901 - September 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan writer, essayist, poet, art critic, and diplomat born in Antigua Guatemala but who spent a good part of his life living in exile in Mexico. Cardoza attended primary school in Antigua Guatemala and at the Colegio Centroamericano in Guatemala City.
- His received a secondary education in the city's Instituto Nacional Central para Varones.
- In the 1920s, Cardoza moved to Paris, France where he became friends with André Breton.
- Influenced by the avant-garde members of the surrealist movement, his first work titled "Luna Park" was published in 1923 and dedicated to the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1873–1927).
- He also got to know fellow Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias who came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne.
- Decades later in 1991 Cardoza wrote a book entitled Miguel Ángel Asturias, Casi Novela (Ediciones Era) about their time in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s that earned him the 1992 Mazatlan Literature award in Mexico.
