Biografia De Jose Coronel Urtercho

José Coronel Urtecho (28 February 1906 - 19 March 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as"the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth century".After an attraction to fascism in the 1930s, he became a strong supporter of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in1977.

He was born on 28 February 1906, in Granada, Nicaragua, the son of Manuel Coronel Matus and Blanca Urtecho Avilés. Urtecho moved to San Francisco, California, in 1924 aftergraduating from Universidad Centroamericana.He is credited with founding the Vanguard Literary Movement which developed between 1929 and 1933. In 1934, he launched La Reacción, anewspaper in which he advanced pro-fascist ideas. However, after recovering from a mental crisis while serving as a diplomat in New York city and Madrid, Urtecho decided in 1959 to writeabout the history of Nicaragua after which time he became a strong critic of the various Somoza administrations which had ruled Nicaragua since 1934.

He married María Kautz Gross. Oneof his sons, Ricardo, became a member of Los Doce; another, Carlos, became a key adviser to Edén Pastora. Currently, his son Manuel serves as Nicaragua's vice minister of foreignrelations. Nephews include Ernesto Cardenal, himself an influential poet and author, and Edgar Chamorro.

José Coronel Urtecho spent his latter years residing near San Carlos in southernNicaragua and died of cancer on 19 March 1994.

His sister Dolores "Lola" Coronel Urtecho married Julio Chamorro Benard, son of Filadelfo Chamorro Bolaños and wife Bertha BenardVivas and paternal grandson of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro, 39th President of Nicaragua, and wife María de la Luz Bolaños Bendaña, and had Edgar Chamorro Coronel, Chief of the Contras