PROFILE
| Full name: Luis Carlos Bernabé del Monte Carmelo López Escauriaza |
| Nickname: One-eyed Lopez |
| Place of birth: Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. |
| Birthdate: June 11, 1879 |
| Date of death: October 30, 1950 |
BIOGRAPHY
Luis Carlos López o el Tuerto López como popularmente se le conoce, fue un poeta colombiano, nacido en Cartagena de Indias el 11 de junio de 1879 en el seno de una familia de comerciantes, distinguida pero de escasos recursos económicos, sus padres fueron María de la Concepción Escariza Iriarte and his father was Benito Lopez Bessada, was the eldest of eleven siblings.
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He studied in local schools until high school (high school), to which he added drawing and painting studies; He then began studying medicine at University cartagena, which he had to abandon due to the Thousand Days War, when he was captured by the conservative army.
Later he dedicated himself to commerce, in the family warehouse called “López Hermanos”, an activity that never satisfied him, in 1909 he married Aura Marina Cowan Tone, with whom he had three children; He had an active journalistic career, being a founder with his brothers Jose Guillermo and Domingo López Escauriaza, of the La Unión Comercial newspaper, which had a fleeting existence; He collaborated in various magazines such as the literary Líneas and Rojo y Azul, as well as in the La Juventud and La Patria newspapers; Leaving the family business, he experienced difficult times from an economic point of view.
He belonged to the centenary generation of Latin American postmodernism, so called for publishing his first writings since 1910, the year in which one hundred years of the Independence of Colombia. His poetry is usually classified as part of the post-modernist reaction, more specifically in the line of reaction towards sentimental and also tropical irony; He is a manifestly anti-romantic poet, who does not idealize anything he touches, neither women nor love nor the country.
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From 1928 he held diplomatic positions as consul in Munich and later, from 1937, and for seven years, in Baltimore. He was always linked to the literary circles of his hometown (Cartagena), where he was part of several gatherings. Many of his contemporaries nicknamed him “El Tuerto López” because of his eye with which he claimed not to be able to see, although in reality he was simply strabismic.
He died in Cartagena de Indias, on October 30, 1950; As a tribute, in 1957 his city dedicated the sculpture Old Shoes to him, sculpted by Tito Lombana, inspired by his poem To my native city.
BOOKS (POETRY)
- Verses (1946)
- By the shortcut (1920)
- Various to Various (1910) in collaboration with Abraham López Penha and Manuel Cervera.
- Difficult postures (Madrid, 1909)
- From my village (Madrid, 1908)
TRIBUTES
GALLERY
Good evening, first of all I want to tell you that One-Eyed Man's second last name is misspelled, it is not Escariza but Escauriaza and that One-Eyed Man had a father and they don't name him. He was the son, as they say above, of María de la Concepción Escauriaza Iriarte and his father was Benito López Bessada.
And on the other hand, I also wanted to tell you that the person in the photo with the hat is not El Tuerto López but his son.
I know because I am his great-niece.
Hello, Good evening, thank you very much for letting us know about these errors, we have made the necessary corrections, thank you again for your contributions, many regards.