León de Greiff

León de Greiff was born in Medellín on 22 July 1895, into a family that had come from Northern Europe, in a house where Scandinavian authors were read. He wrote from the age of fifteen. In 1915 he was part of the magazine of the thirteen young men of his city who caused a scandal in a few issues; ten years later he founded another group in Bogotá. He earned his living as an accountant and statistician, was a civil servant and a diplomat, and over the years gave himself seventy-seven pen names. Showered with honours, including a Swedish one in 1964 and the national prize for literature in 1970, he died in Bogotá on 11 July 1976.

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• PoetryTergiversacionesLeón de Greiff · 1925not translated into EnglishLiterature