José Coronel Urtecho

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name = José Coronel Urtecho


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spouse = María Kautz Gross
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children = Blanca, Carlos, Ricardo, Manuel, Luis
parents = Manuel Coronel Matus, Blanca Urtecho Avilés
relatives = Edgar Chamorro


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José Coronel Urtecho (February 28, 1906 - March 19, 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth century". [Arturo Cruz, Jr. "Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary": 75] After an attraction to fascism in the 1930s, he became a strong supporter of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1977.cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Diccionario de Escritores Nicaragüenses: José Coronel Urtecho | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.dariana.com/diccionario/jose_coronel_urtecho.htm | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-07-30 | language = Spanish ]

Biography

He was born on February 28, 1906, in Granada, Nicaragua, the son of Manuel Coronel Matus and Blanca Urtecho Avilés. Urtecho moved to San Francisco, California, in 1924 after graduating from Universidad Centroamericana. He is credited with founding the Vanguard Literary Movement which developed between 1929 and 1933. In 1934, he launched "La Reacción", a newspaper in which he advanced pro-fascist ideas. However, after recovering from a mental crisis while serving as a diplomat in New York city and Madrid, Urtecho decided in 1959 to write about the history of Nicaragua, after which time he became a strong critic of the various Somoza administrations which had ruled Nicaragua since 1934.

He married María Kautz Gross. One of his sons, Ricardo, became a member of "Los Doce"; another, Carlos, became a key adviser to Edén Pastora. Currently, his son Manuel serves as Nicaragua's vice minister of foreign relations. Nephews include Ernesto Cardenal, himself an influential poet and author, and Edgar Chamorro.

José Coronel Urtecho spent his latter years residing near San Carlos in southern Nicaragua and died of cancer on March 19, 1994. [" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EED8143CF932A15750C0A962958260 Jose Coronel Urtecho, Poet and Diplomat, 88] ," "The New York Times", March 21, 1994]

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* [http://www.dariana.com/Panorama/Coronel_Urtecho.html Poems of José Coronel Urtecho] es icon