Enrique González Martínez

Enrique González Martínez was born in Guadalajara on 13 April 1871. A medical doctor and surgeon, he settled with his family in Sinaloa and practised in Mocorito, where he was also a political prefect and became secretary general of the state government. Settled in Mexico City after the fall of the Porfiriato, he founded a journal, wrote in the press, taught literature and represented Mexico in Chile, Spain and Portugal. A founding member of the Colegio Nacional, winner of the national prize for literature in 1944, and proposed for the Nobel in 1949, he died in Mexico City on 19 February 1952.

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• PoetryLos senderos ocultosEnrique González Martínez · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature