![]() ![]() Lara's early poems include "Al Potro", "Vieja Despedida", and "Mamá-Jijí" (a character in his novel Las Cruces Sobre el Agua), among others. He started writing poems at about 10 years old, when he found out of the suicide death of Medardo Ángel Silva (1898–1919). He spoke French, German, Italian, and Russian almost perfectly. He never attended school and was completely self-taught. ![]() He participated in street battles and blockades, with the help of a friend who carried him on his shoulders and acted as his legs. ![]() Besides being a journalist, his father also wrote poems, which his wife Emma published after his death in a book called Mis Recuerdos (1912), which contained two poems dedicated to his son Joaquín Gallegos Lara: "A mi primogenito" and "El primer diente".ĭespite being crippled, Lara fought as a militant communist and intellectual in Ecuador. Joaquín Gallegos Lara was born in Guayaquil in 1909, the son of Emma Lara Calderon and Joaquín Gallegos Del Campo (1873–1910) who founded a newspaper called "El Caustico" in 1895, which was satirical in nature and pro- Eloy Alfaro. ![]() Joaquín Gallegos Lara (Ap– November 16, 1947) was an Ecuadorian social realist novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. Los que se van (1930), Las cruces sobre el agua (1946) Joaquín José Enrique De Las Mercedes Gallegos Lara ![]()
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