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Rubén Darío

1867 - 1916

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Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: dah-REE-oh, Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rubén Darío is the 920th most popular writer (up from 943rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Nicaragua and the most popular Nicaraguan Writer.

Rubén Darío is most famous for being the first Latin American poet to write in the European style. He was also a journalist, essayist, and diplomat.

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Among writers, Rubén Darío ranks 920 out of 7,302. Before him are Mercè Rodoreda, MacKenzie Scott, Ida Tarbell, Etty Hillesum, Christopher Tolkien, and Joseph Campbell. After him are Artemidorus, John Jacob Astor IV, Kurt Eisner, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Emanuel Schikaneder, and Aristophanes of Byzantium.

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Among people born in 1867, Rubén Darío ranks 28. Before him are Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Enrique Granados, Walther Rathenau, Stanley Baldwin, Umberto Giordano, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. After him are Kurt Eisner, Percy Fawcett, Ignacy Mościcki, Hector Guimard, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and Alexander Parvus. Among people deceased in 1916, Rubén Darío ranks 36. Before him are Max Reger, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Elisabeth of Wied, Percival Lowell, Nedeljko Čabrinović, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz. After him are Gaston Maspero, Victoriano Huerta, Jean Webster, Gérard Encausse, Hugo Münsterberg, and Julius Fučík.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío ranks 6 out of 34. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Augusto César Sandino (1895), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), and Violeta Chamorro (1929). After him are Ernesto Cardenal (1925), Enrique Bolaños (1928), Barbara Carrera (1945), Leopoldo Brenes (1949), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), and Arnoldo Alemán (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Nicaragua

Among writers born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío ranks 1. After him are Claribel Alegría (1924), Sergio Ramírez (1942), and Gioconda Belli (1948).

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