Rafael Delgado

Rafael Delgado was born on 20 August 1853 in Córdoba, in the state of Veracruz, and grew up in Orizaba, where his family settled shortly after his birth. Educated at the national school of Orizaba, he taught literature and history there for eighteen years. Admitted to the Mexican Academy in 1896, he lived for a few years in Mexico City, then in Xalapa, and afterwards headed public instruction in Jalisco at the call of his friend José López Portillo y Rojas. Ill, he returned to Orizaba, where he died on 20 May 1914.

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• NovelLa CalandriaRafael Delgado · 1890not translated into EnglishLiterature