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Steven Ford Brown

Jorge Carrera Andrade:

Biographical Sketch And Chronology

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Jorge Carrera Andrade was born in Quito, Ecuador, on September 14, 1902. He was the son of Abelardo Carrera Andrade and Carmen Vaca Andrade. He died November 7, 1978. Carrera Andrade was educated at Juan Montalvo Normal Institute, Mejía National Institute, and Faculty of Law of the University of Quito, Ecuador; Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence, France. He earned a bachelor’s degree and licentiate in social sciences.



Memberships

Asociación General Universitaria Ibero-Americana of Barcelona (Secretary, 1932)
Verband Latein Amerikanischer Studenten von Berlin
Grupo “América”, Quito
Sociedad Jurídico-Literaria
Sociedad de Estudios Hispanoamericanistas
Sociedad “Amigos de Montalvo”
Club de Trabajadores Intelectuales
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito
California Writers Club, San Francisco
Associazione Internazionale di Poesia, Roma
Pen Club, United States

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.

 

Jorge Carerra Andrade

Chronology by J. Enrique Qjeda is taken from the Spanish edition of El volcan y el colibri, an autobiography by Jorge Carrera Andrade, Corporacion Editora Nacional, Quito, 1989.
Photo courtesy J. Enrique Qjeda


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