Guillermo Valencia

Guillermo Valencia was born in Popayán in 1873 into an aristocratic family of Cauca and lost his father at the age of eight. He studied at the seminary, entered the Chamber at twenty-three on the Conservative side, and discovered in Paris, on a diplomatic mission, the Symbolists, whose models he brought back. He read several languages and translated from French, Italian, German and English, to the point of devoting the better part of his last period to it. Twice a candidate for the presidency, in 1918 and 1930, he was defeated both times. He died in Popayán in 1943; his son was president of the Republic.

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• PoetryRitosGuillermo Valencia · 1899not translated into EnglishLiterature