Emiliano R. Fernández
| Emiliano Rivarola Fernández | |
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Emiliano Fernández on a 2002 Paraguay stamp
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Emiliano Rivarola Fernández |
| Born |
August 8, 1894 Yvysunu, Guarambaré, Paraguay |
| Died | September 15, 1949 (aged 55) Asunción, Paraguay |
| Occupation(s) | Musician and Poet |
Emiliano Rivarola Fernández (August 8, 1894 – September 15, 1949) was a Paraguayan poet and soldier. He was the author of more than 2,000 poems.
Emiliano Fernández was born to Silvestre Fernández and Bernarda Rivarola. During his first years he lived in the town of Ysaty, where he attended the elementary school until the 5th grade.
During the revolution of 1904, which took the Liberal Party, a traditional political group founded in 1887, to power, he moved to Concepción, where later he made the military service.
From the 1920s, with a bohemian spirit he began to travel to all the points of Paraguay, writing his first poems which he would then recite or sing with his guitar: “Primavera” (I y II), “Trigueñita” y “Pyhare amaguype”, published in “Okara poty kue mi”, magazine of poetry and popular songs, edited for many years by the Trujillo family. He later wrote two of his most popular songs in an epic tone: “Che la reina” o “Ahama che china” and “Rojas Silva rekavo”. During the Chaco War, between Paraguay and Bolivia ( 1932–1935 ) he was a member of the Infantry regiment “13 Tuyutí”, as a soldier, writing his best poems between the pauses of the battles. He was wounded and moved to Asunción.
As a soldier, in the first of battle Nanawa, when he was wounded in action, Fernández reached the summit of value and sacrifice. During the international conflict, his poems reached all the distant points of the country, giving enthusiasm and conviction of victory, which later gave him the nickname of “Tirteo verde olivo”, after the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, an expression he owes to Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo.
More than 60 years later, whenever one of his songs is listened to, an inevitable patriotic emotion fills the hearts of his fellow citizens. The scholar and intellectual Carlos Villagra Marsal considers him the most popular poet in Paraguay. With his poems written in “jopara” (mixture of guarani and Spanish) he could get deep inside the soul of his people.
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