Eduardo Cote Lamus

Eduardo Cote Lamus was born in Cúcuta in 1928, the second of three children. He studied law for two years in Bogotá, then a scholarship took him in 1950 to Salamanca for Hispanic philology; he stayed in Spain, gave lectures there, frequented the poets of the post-war period, then was an embassy attaché in Paris. The José Janés Prize crowned his second book in 1951, before a jury that included Eugenio d'Ors and Dámaso Alonso. Back in his country, he founded the magazine Mito with two friends, was elected senator and then governor of Norte de Santander, and died on 3 August 1964 in a car accident, thirteen days before his thirty-sixth birthday.

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• PoetryEstoraquesEduardo Cote Lamus · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature