Medardo Ángel Silva

Medardo Ángel Silva was born on 8 June 1898 in Guayaquil, into a family of musicians. He worked early on in printing and then as a teacher to support his family, before joining the daily El Telégrafo, where he signed the column "Al pasar" under the pen name Jean d'Agrève. He belongs to the so-called beheaded generation, with Arturo Borja, Humberto Fierro and Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño. He died in Guayaquil on 10 June 1919, aged twenty-one, in circumstances still debated.

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• PoetryEl árbol del bien y del malMedardo Ángel Silva · 1918not translated into EnglishLiterature