Salomón de la Selva

Salomón de la Selva was born on 20 March 1893 in León, Nicaragua, and left in 1906 to study in North America, on a scholarship from President Zelaya. There he first wrote in English, taught Spanish at Williams College and mixed with the young New York poets, among them Edna St. Vincent Millay and Stephen Vincent Benét. Enlisted in 1918 in the British army, he fought in the last months of the war, then returned to Spanish. A trade union activist and supporter of Sandino, he settled in Mexico in 1935 and died in Paris on 5 February 1959.

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• PoetryTropical Town and Other PoemsSalomón de la Selva · 1918Literature