Eloy Fariña Núñez

Eloy Fariña Núñez was born on 25 June 1885 in Humaitá and left at the age of eight for Argentina, where he spent his whole life. A pupil at the seminary of Paraná, where he learned Latin, Greek and several modern languages, he began law in Buenos Aires and then joined the tax administration without giving up his nationality. A friend of Leopoldo Lugones, he wrote poems, stories and essays on Guarani myths, and one story won him first prize in the competition of the daily La Prensa. He died in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1929.

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• PoetryCanto secularEloy Fariña Núñez · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature