Rubén Darío Biography

Rubén Darío biography

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NAME: Rubén Darío
OCCUPATION: Diplomat, Journalist, Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: January 18, 1867
DEATH DATE: February 06, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH: Metapa, today known as Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua

PLACE OF DEATH: León, Nicaragua
Originally: Félix Rubén García Sarmiento
Nickname: "The prince of Castilian letters"
Nickname: "Father of Modernism"

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Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century.

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Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement modernismo (modernism). His writing style upended the traditional long and grammatically complex Spanish sentence and instead was simple and direct. In 1898, he went to Europe as a journalist and diplomat. Observing world events, he was inspired and wrote his masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905).