Carlos Obregón Borrero

Carlos Obregón Borrero was born in Bogotá in 1929 into an upper-middle-class family and received a religious upbringing that left its mark on him. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Michigan, returned home to grow cotton on the Atlantic coast, then taught mathematics at the university. He went back to Europe and lived in Paris, Ibiza, Majorca and finally Madrid, in solitude and poverty, apart from the literary circles of his country. He took his own life in Madrid on the first day of 1963, at the age of thirty-three.

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• PoetryDistancia destruidaCarlos Obregón Borrero · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature