Gilberto Owen
| Gilberto Owen Estrada | |
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| Born | May 13, 1904 Rosario, Sinaloa |
| Died | March 9, 1952 Philadelphia |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Genre | poems |
| Spouse | Cecilia Salazar Roldán |
| Children | Victoria Cecilia (b. 1936), Guillermo (b. 1938) |
Gilberto Owen Estrada (May 13, 1904 in Rosario, Sinaloa – March 9, 1952 in Philadelphia) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.
Officially registered as Gilberto Estrada, son of Margarita Estrada from Michoacán, Gilberto Owen was born in Rosario, Sinaloa (May 13, 1904). He spent some of his early years (1919–1923) in Toluca, where he studied at the Instituto Científico y Literario. In 1923, he left Toluca and went to Mexico City, after he got contact to General Álvaro Obregón, who engaged him in the Secretaría de la Presidencia, where he served from August 1923 to June 1928. He matriculated in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. At this time he met the actress Clementina Otero, and people like Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Jorge Cuesta, Carlos Pellicer, Jaime Torres Bodet, José Gorostiza, Enrique González Rojo and others, when he joined the group Los Contemporáneos, where he also wrote for the magazine "Ulises" in 1926. He is presumed to be the romantic one and the least civilized of the group.
He spent some years in Bogota where he worked as a journalist and newspaper translator. It has been published recently a compilation of his work in Bogota, Colombia. Editors Celene García Ávila and Antonio Cajero rescued from El Tiempo (1933–1935) articles and chronicles which display a variety of styles and deal with topics such as politics, extraordinary facts and lifestyle in Latin America. This book was published by Miguel Angel Porrua and Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) in 2009.
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