Carlos Martínez Rivas

Carlos Martínez Rivas was born on 12 October 1924 in Guatemala, where his father, a Nicaraguan like his mother, was working, and came to Nicaragua at the age of six. A pupil at the Jesuit school in Granada, he won a national poetry competition at sixteen, then studied literature in Spain and lived in Paris until 1951. After one book published in Mexico City in 1953, he published no further collection. He lived in California, was a cultural attaché in Madrid, settled in San José, returned to Nicaragua in 1977 and died in Managua on 16 June 1998.

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• PoetryEl paraíso recobradoCarlos Martínez Rivas · 1943not translated into EnglishLiterature