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Ricardo Miró

Died in 1940

Ricardo Miró was born on 5 November 1883 in Panama, then part of Colombia. He left at fifteen to study painting in Bogotá, returned in 1899 because of the Thousand Days' War, published his first verses in El Heraldo del Istmo, where he worked for ten years, and in 1907 founded the magazine Nuevos Ritos. Consul of Panama in Barcelona from 1908 to 1911, he then directed the National Archives and from 1926 was secretary of the Academia Panameña de la Lengua. He died in Panama on 2 March 1940; an annual literary prize was created in his honour.

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