Enrique González Rojo (born

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, 1899 – died

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, May 9, 1939) was a Mexican writer.

Biography

González Martínez was the son of the poet

Enrique González Martínez Enrique González Martínez (April 13, 1871 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – February 19, 1952 in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, diplomat, surgeon and obstetrician. His poetry is considered to be primarily Modernist in nature, with elements of Fre ...

and his wife Luisa Rojo. He had two siblings. He worked for the magazines ''San-Ev-Ank'' (1918) and the ''Revista Nueva'' (1919), was director of the literary section of the paper ''El Heraldo de México'' (1920) and was chief of the department of fine arts of the

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from 1923 to 1924. He was co-founder of the magazine '' Contemporáneos''.''Obra completa : versos y prosa, 1918-1939 (2002)''
(Spanish)

Selected works / publications

* ''El puerto y otros poemas'', 1923 * ''Espacio'', 1926 * ''Viviendas en el mar'', 1927 * ''Romance of José Conde'', 1939 * ''Elegías romanas y otros poemas'', 1941 (posthumously)
''Obra completa''
2002 (posthumously)

References

20th-century Mexican writers 20th-century Mexican male writers Writers from Sinaloa People from Culiacán 1899 births 1939 deaths {{Mexico-writer-stub