Óscar Ferreiro

Óscar Ferreiro was born in Pilar on 20 July 1921, the son of immigrants who had come to repopulate the town after the war of 1870. A land surveyor by trade, he travelled the country with a theodolite on his back, which fed his poetry as much as his ethnographic work on the indigenous peoples. A translator of Nerval and Rimbaud and a pioneer of surrealist poetry, he belonged to the generation of the forties. He married the writer Ana Iris Chaves, left some forty books and died in San Lorenzo, near Asunción, on 31 July 2004.

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• PoetryEl gallo de la alquería y otros compuestosÓscar Ferreiro · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature