Pedro Mir

Pedro Mir was born in San Pedro de Macorís on 3 June 1913. A schoolteacher in his town, he published his first verses in 1937 and obtained a doctorate in law in 1941. Threatened by the Trujillo dictatorship, he went into exile in 1947, notably in Cuba and Mexico, and returned only in 1962. A professor of aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, an essayist and historian, he was proclaimed national poet. He died in Santo Domingo on 11 July 2000.

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• PoetryThere Is a Country in the WorldHay un país en el mundoPedro Mir · 1949Literature