Ávila, Julio Enrique (1892–1968)
Ávila, Julio Enrique (1892–1968)
Julio Enrique Ávila (b. 4 August 1892; d. 1968), Salvadoran poet and intellectual leader. A professor of chemistry and pharmacology, and later dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the National University of El Salvador, Ávila became known primarily as a literary figure. His first book, Fuentes de alma (1917), established him in the modernist school of Rubén Darío. Subsequent works, especially the poetic novel El vigía sin luz (1927) and an anthology, El mundo de mi jardín (1927), established him as one of the leading Salvadoran poets of his generation.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alfonso María Landarech, Estudios literarios (1959), pp. 114-139.
Luis Gallegos Valdés, Panorama de la literatura salvadoreña del período precolombino a 1980 (1987), esp. pp. 209-216.
David Escobar Galindo, Índice antológico de la poesía salva-doreña (1987), pp. 256-257.
Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.