Julio Correa

Julio Correa
Julio Correa on a 2002 Paraguayan stamp
Born	Julio Correa August 30, 1890 Asunción, Paraguay
Died	July 14, 1953 Luque, Paraguay
Nationality	Paraguayan
Known for	Poetry
Notable work	Ñane mba’era’y Guerra aja Karaí Ulogio Tereho yevy fréntepe

Julio Correa Myzkowsky (August 30, 1890 – July 14, 1953) was a Paraguayan poet in Guarani language.

Correa's maternal grandfather, Myzkowsky, was of Polish origin, while his father was Portuguese. Correa left school at young age.

He started to publish his poems in 1926.

Encouraged by the poet Manuel Ortiz Guerrero, he started to write an article titled “Dialoguitos Callejeros” (Small Street Dialogues) in the newspaper Guarani, of Facundo Recalde.

His talent became apparent during the Chaco War. His work in the Guarani language was very well received by the public and became known as an author, actor and director.

From 1934 to 1936, he published his poems in the magazine Guarania, of Natalicio González. Those became part, later on, of the book Body and Soul. (1943). In 1947, he was arrested because of his writings. The civil war that year had a negative effect on the author, and he became depressed. He remained isolated in his country house in Luque, where he died on July 14, 1953.

He came from a well-to-do family that had fallen on hard times as a result of adversities in the aftermath of the war of 1870. His work is, without doubt, the utmost expression of creation of Paraguayan dramatic art and the Guarani theatre, always inspired in social subjects. Descendant of Brazilian people, his father fought in the war and once it ended, decided to stay in Paraguay, like many other soldiers at the time. As a child he grew among people that talk Guaraní, among countryman and peons, and it was from that time, he started to acknowledge their struggles to survive. When he became a grown man, he discovered himself as able to read this people, as an interpreter to them, in the theater as in the social action.

He was very good friends with the sculptor Erminio Blotta (from Rosario, Argentina), honorary citizen of Paraguay.

Married with the notorious actress, Georgina Martínez. They founded together a theatre company, with which he traveled to every part of Paraguay, carrying a message condemning the injustice of large entailed lands and the exploit of the working country man.