Darío Herrera (1870-1914) was a
Panama
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nian
Modernismo
''Modernismo'' is a literary movement that took place primarily during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century in the Spanish-speaking world, best exemplified by Rubén Darío who is also known as the father of ''Modernismo''. The ter ...
poet
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and
diplomat
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. He placed great importance on the example given by contemporary
French writing.
His most important work is ''Horas lejanas y otros cuentos'', a collection of short stories (published Buenos Aires 1903)
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Modernist poets
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Panamanian male writers
Male poets
1870 births
1914 deaths
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