Nicomedes Guzmán
Chilean writer, editor, poet and novelist
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Nicomedes Guzmán (June 25, 1914 in Santiago, Chile – June 26, 1964, also in Santiago), was a Chilean writer, editor, poet, and novelist.
Biography
The second of twelve children born to Nicomedes Vásquez Arzola and Rosa Guzmán Acevedo, his full legal name was Óscar Nicomedes Vásquez Guzmán.[citation needed]
Guzmán's father worked in several jobs including as a streetcar motorman, a doorman, and an ice cream peddler. Guzmán's mother was a housewife and augmented their small income by caring for upper-class homes on occasion (Pearson 1976: 4-5).
His formal education was often interrupted by his having to work —as a precocious laborer- to help the large family. Thus his scholarly development was largely autodictic. At age eleven he was a typesetter and bookbinder's assistant; later he was a truck-driver's helper and an errand boy. He carried boxes in a factory and, at age sixteen, obtained a job in a real-estate brokerage. He studied in evening classes in the Federico Hanssen Night School (Pearson 5).
He married Lucia Del Cármen Salazar Vidal, and they had five children. He had a further two children from a later marriage with the psychologist and social worker Esther Josefina Panay Pérez.[citation needed]
His first novel was Los hombres oscuros/obscuros and his second was La sangre y la esperanza (Blood and Hope).[citation needed]
Guzmán died the day after his fiftieth birthday.[citation needed]
Works
Novels and Short Story collections
- Los Hombres Oscuros (often spelled obscuros) (1939)
- La Sangre y la Esperanza (1943)
- Donde Nace el Alba (1944)
- La Carne Iluminada (1945)
- La Luz Viene del Mar (1951)
- Una Moneda al Río y Otros Cuentos (1954)
- El Pan Bajo la Bota (1960)
Poetry
- La Ceniza y el Sueño (1938)
Anthologies
- Nuevos Cuentistas Chilenos (1941)
- Antología de Baldomero Lillo (1955)
- Antología de Carlos Pezoa Véliz (1957)
- Autorretrato de Chile (1957)
- Antología de Cuentos [de] Marta Brunet (1962)
- Antología de Cuentos Chileno (póstuma, 1969)
References
Sources
- Ferrero, Mario (1982). Nicomedes Guzmán y la Generación del 38. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mar Afuera.
- Guzmán, Nicomedes (2007). Estampas populares de Chile: Crónicas. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores. ISBN 978-956-284-540-3.
- Pearson, Lon (1976). Nicomedes Guzmán. Proletarian author in Chile's literary generation of 1938. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-0178-4.
- Promis [Ojeda], José (1993). La novela chilena del último siglo. Santiago: La Noria.
External links
- http://nicomedesguzman.cl
- Biografía, fotos, narrativa y obras del Escritor Chileno desarrolladas profundamente en Memoria Chilena
- Generación literaria chilena denominada Generación del 38
- Cronología de Nicomedes Guzmán en memoria chilena
- Los hombres oscuros en memoria chilena
- La Sangre y La Experanza en memoria chilena
- Una Moneda al Rio y Otros cuentos en memoria chilena
- La Ceniza y el Sueño en memoria chilena
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