Amado Nervo

Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo (Amado Nervo) was born on August 27, 1870, in Tepic, Mexico. A poet and diplomat, he is considered the greatest Mexican poet of the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. In 1888, he began his career as a journalist, and went to Paris in 1900, as a correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo, where he lived with some of the most representative names of the Belle Époque, including Oscar Wilde and Rubén Darío, with whom he established a close friendship, reflected in his later works. In Paris, he also met Ana Cecilia Luiza Daillez, his companion for more than ten years. In 1902, he returned to Mexico, where he lived years of popularity and great activity in newspapers and magazines, entered the diplomatic career in 1905, and lived thirteen years in Madrid, from where he sent texts to Mexico, Argentina and Cuba, which were published in the best literary magazines of the time. His literary production was abundant and varied: short stories, essays, chronicles, as well as many poems, published in several books. Plenitude, published at the end of his life, and one of his most successful works, clearly reflects the search for inner peace that he sought all his life. Due to the political changes that took place in Mexico, for several years he was removed from official positions, until, in 1918, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico in Argentina and Uruguay, where he went in early 1919, and where they received him with admiration and affection. He never returned to Mexico in life, as he died in Montevideo, on May 24, 1919. He rests in the Rotonda de Las Personas Ilustres, located inside one of the largest and oldest cemeteries in Mexico City, the Panteón Civil de Dolores, and his work, diverse, human, intense and masterfully edifying, places him, in his own right, in the Olympus of universal literature.