Pablo Antonio Cuadra

Pablo Antonio Cuadra Cardenal
Born	August 10, 1912 Managua, Nicaragua
Died	January 2, 2002 Managua, Nicaragua
Occupation	Poet, essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist
Nationality	Nicaraguan

Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912–2002) was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua.

Cuadra was born on November 4, 1912 in Managua but spent the majority of his life in Granada. Cuadra or PAC was the son of Carlos Cuadra Pasos and Merceditas Cardenal. Cuadra is a first cousin of the writer Ernesto Cardenal.

(this page shows three different dates for the birth of Cuadra: 1912, 1914 and 1926. According to the New York Times obituary, he died at age 89 on January 2, 2002, which would place his birth in 1912. Thus, he was born sometime after January 2 in 1912) Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/nyregion/pablo-antonio-cuadra-89-nicaraguan-poet.html)

Cuadra married Adilia Mercedes Bendaña Ramírez.

In 1931 Cuadra, along with José Coronel Urtecho, Joaquín Pasos, and other writers, founded the Vanguardia literary movement in Granada.

Cuadra's Poemas nicaragüenses was published in 1934. He opposed the American intervention against Augusto César Sandino in the 1930s and broke with the Somoza dynasty in the 1940s.

In 2000 he became co-director of La Prensa newspaper alongside his cousin and partner, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal. Chamorro was assassinated by Somoza supporters in 1978. Cuadra was briefly jailed in 1956 for his opposition to the Somoza's régime. In 1961 he became editor of the influential journal El Pez y La Serpiente (The Fish and the Serpent), which was highly influential in Latin America.

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