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TOP 14: RAFAEL POMBO
"Rafael
Pombo is one of the great poets of Colombia, and the best exponent of
romanticism in the country".
was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá November 7, 1833 –
May 5, 1912. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school,
Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America
as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After the termination of this
diplomatic position, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to
translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. The
product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation
published in two books under the titles Cuentos pintados para niños and Cuentos
morales para niños formales.
In spite of his extensive and diverse literary works,
Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered for this contribution to children's
literature. Among his most popular
children's fables are Michín, Juan Chunguero, Pastorcita, La Pobre Viejecita,
Simón el Bobito, El Gato Bandido, and El Renacuajo paseador.
After seventeen years in the United States of America,
Rafael Pombo returned to Colombia, where he worked as a celebrated translator
and journalist (founding several newspapers). On August 20, 1905 he was crowned
as Colombia's best poet - his Poesías Completas was published in 1957, from
which the poem En El Niága was taken. Rafael Pombo remained in Colombia until
his death on May 5, 1912.
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