Jacket 12 - Steven Ford Brown - Jorge Carrera Andrade: Biographical Sketch And Chronology

1902	Born September 14 in Quito.
1921	Graduates from el Instituto Nacional Mejia.
1922	Publishes first book of poetry, Estanque inefable.
1923	Helps to organize Ecuadorian Socialist Party.
1927–1928	Secretary-general of the Ecuadorian Socialist Party
1928	Statistician of the Bureau of Studies (Dirección de Estudios); travels to Europe and meets Gabriela Mistral and Cesar Vallejo.
1929	Named Chancellor of Ecuadorian consulate in Marseilles, France.
1930	Publishes Boletines de mar y tierra in Barcelona.
1933	Secretary of Ecuadorian Senate; Professor, Mejía National Institute, Quito.
1934	Consul in Paita, Peru.
1934	Consul in Le Havre, France.
1935	Marries Paulette Colin Lebas; publishes Rol de la manzana and El tiempo manual in Spain.
1937	Birth of son, Juan Cristobal.
1938–1940	Consul General in Yokohama, Japan; publishes Pais secreto in Tokyo; publishes Antologia poetica, 1922–1939 in Quito.
1940–1944	Consul General in San Francisco, California; begins friendship with Pedro Salinas.
1944	Chargé d’affaires in Caracas, Venezuela.
1945	Publishes Poems of Paul Valery in Spanish translation in Caracas, Venezuela.
1946	Resigns from diplomatic post to protest President Velasco Ibarra’s breach of the Ecuadorian constitution; wife begins divorce proceedings.
1947	Senator of the Republic of Ecuador; named by President Carlos Julio Arosemena Envoy Extraordinaire and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain.
1948	Delegate to the Third General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris
1949	Delegate to the Fourth Conference of UNESCO.
1950	Returns to Quito and is named Head of the Section for Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Relations; six months later resigns and is named Vice President of Casa de la Cultura, Quito.
1951	Publishes in Quito, Poesia Francesa Contemporanea, an anthology of 55 French poets in Spanish translation; anthology receives Isle Saint-Louis Prize from French government; Lugar de origen appears in Quito. Ministry of Education names Carrera Andrade as Permanent delegate to UNESCO and he returns to Paris. Marries Janina Ruffier des Aimes.
1952	With electoral triumph of Velasco Ibarra Carrera Andrade resigns position. Begins employment with UNESCO as director of Spanish publications. Birth of daughter Patricia.
1953	Second edition of Familia de noche is published in Paris.
1955	La tierra siempre verde, published in Paris.
1958	Moneda del forastero in a bilingual edition (Spanish-French) is published in Paris. Leaves job at UNESCO and transfers to New York as member of Ecuadorian delgation to the United Nations.
1958	1959 Hombre planetario appears in Bogota; El camino del sol appears in Quito.
1960	President Velasco Ibarra names Carrera Andrade as Ambassdor for Special Mission to governments of Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. Participates in successful negotiation of Treaty of Rio de Janeiro.
1961	Named Ambassador to Venezuela.
1962	Mi vida en poemas published in Caracas.
1963	President Arosemena Monroy is deposed and a military junta is established. Venezuela suspends relations with Ecuador and Carrera Andrade is forced to resign.
1964	Named Ambassador to France; publishes in Nicaragua a poem and two books: “Floresta de los guacamayos”, Radiografia de la cultura ecuatoriana and Interpretations de Ruben Dario.
1965	Publishes in Paris Cronicas de las Indias.
1966	The new president of Ecuador, Otto Arosemena, names Carrera Andrade Minister of Foreign Relations.
1967	President Arosemena accepts a denunciation of Carrera Andrade by the right.
1968	Participates in International Poetry Festival at the Poetry Center in New York and Festival of Poetry at State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.
1969	Named Distinguished Professor at SUNY Stony Brook.
1970	Participates in Festival of International Poetry organized by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; an autobiography, El volcan y colibri, appears in Mexico; bilingual Spanish-French edition of El libro del Destierro appears in Dakar.
1971	Lecture at Harvard; terminates teaching position at SUNY Stony Brook and returns to Paris.
1972	Jorge Carrera Andrade: Introduccion al estudio de su vida y de su obra by J. Enrique Qjeda appears in Madrid; Selected Poems, translated by H. R. Hays published by SUNY Press.
1973	Lectures from Harvard, Stony Brook, and Vassar College collected as Reflections on Spanish American Poetry (SUNY Press).
1975	Director of Biblioteca Nacional, Quito; divorced from second wife. Obra poetica completa published in Quito. Academia de la Lengua del Ecuador nominates Carrera Andrade for Nobel Prize in literature. Government of Ecuador awards him “Eugenio Espejo” prize in recognition of his extraordinary literary accomplishments and contributions.
1978	November 7 Jorge Carrera Andrade dies and is buried in the Cemetery of San Diego, Quito.

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