Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was born on 18 January 1867 at Metapa, in Nicaragua, and was raised in León by an aunt of his mother, Bernarda Sarmiento. He was publishing verse in newspapers from the age of thirteen. Leaving for Chile in 1886, he worked there as a journalist, then settled in Buenos Aires in 1893 as consul of Colombia. As a correspondent of La Nación, he reached Spain at the end of 1898 and afterwards lived mostly in Paris. Appointed resident minister of Nicaragua in Madrid, he later returned to León, where he died on 6 February 1916.

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• TaleAzul…Rubén Darío · 1888not translated into EnglishLiterature