Rubén Bonifaz Nuño

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño was born in Córdoba, in the state of Veracruz, in November 1923. A lawyer by training, he taught Latin at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the national university, where he founded the Institute of Philological Research in 1973. He translated Catullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Ovid, Virgil, Caesar and Cicero into verse, and studied the art and culture of ancient Mexico. A member of the Colegio Nacional in 1972, winner of the national prize for literature in 1974, he died in Mexico City on 31 January 2013.

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• PoetryLos demonios y los díasRubén Bonifaz Nuño · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature