Luis Florencio Chamizo Trigueros (

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), 7 November 1894 –

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, 24 December 1945) was a Spanish writer in Castilian and "Castúo", a dialect in

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. He was born within a humble family and he started writing poems secretly. He went later to Madrid and

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, where he graduated from a high school and a commercial school. After finishing studies in law, he returned to his native village. In 1921 he moved to

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(Seville), where he met his future wife and the mother of his five daughters, Virtudes Cordo Nogales. In 1924 he was elected, accidentally, mayor of Guadalcanal and was chosen as a member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras.

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*''El Miajón de los Castúos'' (1921) *''Las Brujas'' (1932) *''Extremadura'' (1932) *''Obra Poética Completa'' (1967) 1894 births 1945 deaths People from Las Vegas Altas Spanish male writers Writers from Extremadura {{Spain-writer-stub