Luis Carlos López

Luis Carlos López was born in Cartagena on 11 June 1879, the eldest of eleven children of a merchant. Nicknamed the one-eyed man, he was in fact cross-eyed, which hampered his studies: as a child, he tore up primers, unable to read like the others. He began studying medicine, and the War of a Thousand Days interrupted it by confining him to his city as a prison. He spent his life behind the counter of his father's shop, where a gathering of men of letters took place every evening, was consul twice, and died at home on 30 October 1950.

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• PoetryDe mi villorrioLuis Carlos López · 1908not translated into EnglishLiterature