Carlos Wyld Ospina (June 19, 1891,

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– June 19, 1956, Quetzaltenango) was a

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n novelist, essayist and poet.

Biography

Wyld was born as son of Guillermo Wyld Quiñones and his wife Soledad Ospina Chaparro, a niece of the

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. His paternal grandfather was English. Wyld spent periods in Mexico and in Guatemala City, but most of his life he lived in Quetzaltenango. Together with

Porfirio Barba Jacob Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer. Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora B ...

he founded the paper ''Churubusc'' in Mexico, and was also director of the Guatemalan paper''El Zaraguat''. Like Alberto Velásquez Günther, Carlos Mérida and

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, he joined the writers' group Los Líricos. (Spanish). He was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and of the ''Sociedad de Geografía e Historia'' (''Society of Geography and History'').

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyld Ospina, Carlos Guatemalan essayists Male essayists Guatemalan people of English descent 20th-century Guatemalan poets 20th-century male writers Guatemalan male poets Guatemalan novelists Male novelists Writers from Guatemala City 1891 births 1956 deaths 20th-century novelists 20th-century essayists