Ricardo Miró is a Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

nian writer and is considered to be the most noteworthy poet of this country.

He travels to Bogotá

Bogotá

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 Colombia

Colombia

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 at the age of fifteen! to study painting, but was forced to return to Panama in 1899 due to the Thousand Days War

Thousand Days War

The Thousand Days' War , was a civil armed conflict in the newly created Republic of Colombia, between the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party and its radical factions. In 1899 the ruling conservatives were accused of maintaining power through fraudulent elections...

. The magazine, Isthmus Herald, where he worked for 10 years, published his first verses.

Miró travelled to Spain and between 1908 and 1911 where he had the position of consul in Barcelona

Barcelona

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. In 1909 publishes his poem "Native Land", where nostalgia stands out for the feels of being far from his land. He returns to Panama where he held the position of the National Archives director (1919–1927) and Panamanian Academy of Language secretary (1926–1940).

His poetry with its "themes of love, of patriotic emotion and of admiration in the presence of landscapes" unified national feeling and influenced the republic movement in Panama.

Miró is known as the national poet of Panama.

Events

A posthumous annual literary prize was named in his honour, the Ricardo Miró National Literary Contest of the Republic of Panama. The prize was to encourage writers of poetry and fiction in Panama and in 1952 was extended to include works for theater.

In 1983 on his centenary, Miró's completed works were published in two volumes by the National Institute of Culture of Panama.

Novels and Collections

• Preludes (1908)
• Second Preludes (1916)
• The Pacific legend (1919)
• Maria Flower (1922)
• Patriotic verses and scholastic recitals (1925)
• Silent Ways (1929)
• Poetry (collection published 1983)
• Novels and Stories (collection published 1983)

Poems

• "The last seagull" (1905)
• "Native Land" (1909)
• "To Portobello" (1918)
• "Patria" ("Homeland")
• The reincarnation poem (1929)