Biography of rufino blanco fombona

Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Rufino Blanco Fombona, a Venezuelan diplomat, political activist, and writer of the Modernismo, was born on June 17, , in Caracas. The same year, Fombona was appointed to a diplomatic post in Philadelphia.

Rufino Blanco Fombona (–) was a.

Upon his return to Caracas, he became involved with Venezuelan magazines such as El Cojo Ilustrado , marking his first foray into journalism and editorial work. He travelled widely in his diplomatic career, to countries including the Netherlands, the United States, the Dominican Republic, and France. His first book, Trovadores y trovas , published by J.

This experience served as the inspiration for his first novel, El hombre de hierro Tipografia Americana, As a result, Fombona was exiled from Venezuela, taking him to Paris and, later, Madrid. His period of exile was one of great literary and intellectual production, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, including Judas capitolino E.

After returning to Venezuela in , he was admitted into the Academia Nacional de la Historia and was again appointed political and diplomatic positions in the Venezuelan government. The last years of his life were spent writing, and his final book of poems, Mazorcas de oro , was published by Impresores Unidos in He died on October 16, , on a trip to Buenos Aires.

Over the course of his life, he was nominated six times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though none of his nominations were ever successful. Search Submit. Poets Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Page submenu block find poems find poets poem-a-day literary seminars materials for teachers poetry near you.