Background
Jorge Carrera Andrade was born on the 18th of September 1903 in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Jorge Carrera Andrade was born on the 18th of September 1903 in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
He attended Colegio Mejía then he studied at Universidad Central del Ecuador and finally Universidad de Barcelona.
While living in the United States, Carrera developed many literary relationships with American writers, in particular Muna Lee whose critically acclaimed translation of his poetry, Secret Country, was published in 1946. His work was praised and championed by John Malcolm Brinnin, H.R. Hays, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, William Jay Smith and William Carlos Williams.
As both a diplomat in Ecuador’s foreign service and an intermittent expatriate living in exile, Jorge Carrera Andrade traveled extensively throughout the world, recording his observations in numerous essays. An eminent poet as well, Carrera Andrade composed brief, imagistic poems noted for a sympathetic understanding of the human condition. He also translated the works of other writers into Spanish and adapted Japanese haiku into Spanish in a form called micrograma.
Carrera Andrade's poetic work developed for half a century in a number of volumes published worldwide.
He died in 1978.