Ricardo Miro

Ricardo Miró (Panama City, November 5, 1883 - ib. March 2, 1940) was a Panamanian poet, writer and diplomat.

Biography

Ricardo Miró Denis was born on November 5, 1883 in Panama City, at that time the capital of the Sovereign State of Panama, a federal state of the United States of Colombia. He was the son of Ricardo Miró Tuñón and Mercedes Denis de Miró. He is also the grandson on his father's side of Gregorio Miró Arosemena, one of the presidents of the Sovereign State of Panama. He was also the nephew on his mother's side of the poet Amelia Denis de Icaza.

From a very young age he was orphaned by his father. At the age of fifteen he traveled to Bogotá, upon being expelled from his hometown to do his studies, however he returned to Panama due to the War of a Thousand Days in 1899. He published his first verses in the magazine El Heraldo del Istmo. , where he worked for 10 years. In 1906 he married Doña Isabel Grimaldo, the following year, he founded and directed the magazine Nuevos Ritos. He then traveled to Spain and between 1908 and 1911 he held the position of consul in Barcelona. In 1909 he published his poem Homeland , where he highlights the nostalgia he feels when he is far from his homeland.

Due to the fame of his works, poetry and story contests were held to commemorate Ricardo Miró Denis. Currently in Panama they continue to remember his work and effort that led him to be very famous.

Works

• Preludes (1908).
• On high night (1910)
• Second preludes (1916).
• The legend of the Pacific (1919).
• Flower of Mary (1922).
• Patriotic Verses and School Rectations (1925).
• Silent roads (1929).
• The poem of reincarnation (1929).

He also wrote poems such as:

• The last seagull (1905).
• Homeland (1909).
• A Portobelo (1918).
• Your eyes
• Loneliness sick
• First night

He also wrote stories that he never published in book form, but that appeared in local newspapers and magazines.

For his work as a poet, the Ricardo Miró Prize has been posthumously commemorated, which values exponents of Panamanian literature.