Carlos Wyld Ospina
Carlos Wyld Ospina (June 19, 1891, Antigua Guatemala – June 19, 1956, Quetzaltenango) was a Guatemalan novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Wyld was born as son of Guillermo Wyld Quiñones and his wife Soledad Ospina Chaparro, a niece of the Colombian president Mariano Ospina Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was English. Wyld spent periods in Mexico and in Guatemala City, but most of his life he lived in Quetzaltenango. Together with Porfirio Barba Jacob he founded the paper Churubusc in Mexico, and was also director of the Guatemalan paperEl Zaraguat. Like Alberto Velásquez Günther, Carlos Mérida and Rafael Yela Günther, he joined the writers' group Los Líricos. He was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and of the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia (Society of Geography and History). References External links Photo Guatemalan essayists Male essayists Guatemalan people of English descent 20th-century Guatemalan poets 20th-century male writers Guatemalan male poets Guatemalan novelists Male novelists Writers from Guatemala City 1891 births 1956 deaths 20th-century novelists 20th-century essayists