José Lezama Lima

José Lezama Lima was born on 19 December 1910 at the Columbia military camp, near Havana, where his father was a colonel; the latter died in 1919. A law student, he took part in the revolts against Machado, then became a lawyer. He founded magazines, Verbum in 1937, then Orígenes in 1944 with José Rodríguez Feo, and from 1937 published collections of poems and essays of great erudition. He died in Havana on 9 August 1976.

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• NovelParadisoJosé Lezama Lima · 1966Literature