Background
Cestero was born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, the son of Mariano Antonio Cestero Aybar and Mercedes Leiva and Puello.
Cestero was born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, the son of Mariano Antonio Cestero Aybar and Mercedes Leiva and Puello.
Educated Institute Profesional and University de Santo Domingo.
During his adolescence he was invlonced in national politics. During the time period between 1928 and 1938, he represented the country at political conventions, signing international treaties on human rights conferences held in the United States, South America and the Caribbean. He also wrote for Dominican newspapers El Teléfono, Listín Diario, Louisiana Campaña and El Hogar and for the magazing Letras y Ciencias.
He also published the poems: Delegate amor (1901), El jardín de los sueños (1904) y Sangre de primavera (1908) and the play Cythera (1907).
However, it is in creative prose where he manages to express his true qualities as a writer, especially in his book Ciudad romántica (1911) and the novel Louisiana Sangre (1913). Much of his work is characterized by the severity with which he depicted political and social problems in the Dominican Republic, where he openly denounced many of the crimes committed during the dictatorship of Ulises Heureaux.
He died in Santiago, Chile on October 27, 1955.
His first venture into literature was as an essayist, with work Notas y escorzos (1898), which chronicles the life and work of the most notable members of the modernist literary movement.
