Jorge Enrique Adoum
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Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuador
ian poet and writer. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. Social concerns were always present in his work.
, Ecuador, of Lebanese
ancestry. He is best known for his novel Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda
(Between Marx and a Nude Woman), which received Mexico's Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. This was the first time the award was given to a foreigner.
Adoum also translated works from the following authors into the Spanish language: T. S. Eliot
, Langston Hughes
, Jacques Prévert
, Yiannis Ritsos
, Vinicius de Moraes
, Nâzım Hikmet
, Fernando Pessoa
, Joseph Brodsky
, and Seamus Heaney
.
Adoum died in Quito on July 3, 2009. He was 83. His work has yet to be translated into English.
from the United States of America..
declared: "Ecuador has the greatest poet in [Latin] America" in reference to Adoum.
In 1989, Adoum was awarded Ecuador's National Prize of Culture "Eugenio Espejo Prize" presented by the President of Ecuador for his works. Adoum has been nominated for the Cervantes
Prize, which is the most prestigious and renumerative award given for Spanish-language literature.
Novels:
Essays:
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
ian poet and writer. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. Social concerns were always present in his work.
Biography
Adoum was born in AmbatoSan Juan de Ambato
Ambato is a city in located in the central Andean valley of Ecuador. Lying on the banks of the Ambato River, the city also sits beneath several tall mountains. It is the capital of the province of Tungurahua, at an elevation of 2,577 meters above sea level. The population is 180,000 , making it...
, Ecuador, of Lebanese
Lebanese people
The Lebanese people are a nation and ethnic group of Levantine people originating in what is today the country of Lebanon, including those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state....
ancestry. He is best known for his novel Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda
Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda
Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda is a 1976 novel written by the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Enrique Adoum.The novel was made into a film in 1996 by the Ecuadorian film maker Camilo Luzuriaga, in Spanish with English and French subtitles...
(Between Marx and a Nude Woman), which received Mexico's Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. This was the first time the award was given to a foreigner.
Adoum also translated works from the following authors into the Spanish language: T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
, Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
, Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
, Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and left-wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II.-Early life:...
, Vinicius de Moraes
Vinicius de Moraes
Marcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...
, Nâzım Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet , was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"...
, Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
, Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
, and Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
.
Adoum died in Quito on July 3, 2009. He was 83. His work has yet to be translated into English.
Political activity
In 2006, Adoum signed a petition in support of the independence of Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
from the United States of America..
Awards
In 1952, the Nobel Laureate Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
declared: "Ecuador has the greatest poet in [Latin] America" in reference to Adoum.
In 1989, Adoum was awarded Ecuador's National Prize of Culture "Eugenio Espejo Prize" presented by the President of Ecuador for his works. Adoum has been nominated for the Cervantes
Cervantes
-People:*Alfonso J. Cervantes , mayor of St. Louis, Missouri*Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, 16th-century man of letters*Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban composer*Jorge Cervantes, a world-renowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation...
Prize, which is the most prestigious and renumerative award given for Spanish-language literature.
Work
Poetry:- Ecuador Amargo (1949)
- Carta para Alejandra (1952)
- Los Cuadernos de La Tiera: I. Los Orígenes, II. El Enemigo y la Mañana (1952)
- Notas del Hijo Pródigo (1953)
- Relato del Extranjero (1955)
- Los Cuadernos de la Tierra: III. Dios Trajo la Sombra (1959)
- Los Cuadernos de la Tierra: IV. El Dorado y las Ocupaciones Nocturnas (1961)
- Informe Personal Sobre la Situación (1975)
- No Son Todos Los Están (1979)
- Poesía Viva del Ecuador (1990)
Novels:
- Entre Marx y Una Mujer Desnuda (1976)
- Ciudad sin Ángel (1995)
- Los Amores Fugaces (1997)
Essays:
- Ecuador: Señas Particulares (2000)