Author · Ecuador
Gonzalo Zaldumbide
Died in 1965
Gonzalo Zaldumbide Gómez de la Torre was born in Quito, the son of the poet Julio Zaldumbide, whom he lost as a child. He made his name in Paris, as early as 1908 and 1909, with essays on Henri Barbusse and on Gabriele D'Annunzio, before writing on Rodó and on Montalvo. He spent his life in diplomacy, in Paris, in London and in several capitals of the Americas, and was minister of Foreign Affairs from 1929. He married the pianist Isabel Rosales Pareja and was a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of the Language. He died in Quito on 30 November 1965.
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- NovelÉgloga trágicaGonzalo Zaldumbide · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature