Tomás Carrasquilla
Writer, Author
1858 – 1940
Who was Tomás Carrasquilla?
Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker of the Ministry of Public Works. He was an avid reader, and one of the most original Colombian literary writers, greatly influencing the younger generation of his time and later generations. Carrasquilla was little known in his time, according to Federico de Onís, a scholar of Carrasquilla's works. It was only after 1936, when he was already 68 years old, when he was awarded with the National Prize of Literature, that Carrasquilla got a national recognition. Tomás Carrasquilla Library Park is named in his honor.
The Colombian civil wars of the second part of the 19th century prevented young Carrasquilla from continuing his studies at the University of Antioquia. A committed intellectual, Carrasquilla organized tertulias—social gatherings to read books and discuss them—in his Medellín house. Many young writers and intellectuals of his time joined those tertulias; from that time he was called "Maestro Tomás Carrasquilla." Among Carrasquilla's admirers was Colombian philosopher Fernando González Ochoa.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1858
Santo Domingo, Antioquia - Also known as
- Tomas Carrasquilla
- Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo
- Don Tomás
- Maestro Tomás Carrasquilla
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- Colombian people
- Nationality
- Colombia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Antioquia
Law
( - 1877)
- University of Antioquia
- Lived in
- Bogotá
- Medellín
- Died
- Dec 19, 1940
Medellín
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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