Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

Manuel Ortiz Guerrero was born on 16 July 1894 in Villarrica; his mother died at his birth and his grandmother raised him. A pupil at the national college of Asunción, he followed his father into the revolution of 1912 and had to go into exile in the forests of Mato Grosso. He then lived apart, printing his books on a press bought on credit and selling them door to door. He wrote in Spanish and in Guaraní, and José Asunción Flores set several of his poems to music. He died in Asunción on 8 May 1933.

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• PoetrySurgenteManuel Ortiz Guerrero · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature