Carlos Wyld Ospina

{{Short description|Guatemalan novelist, essayist and poet}}

{{family name hatnote|Wyld|Ospina|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Carlos Wyld Ospina

| image =

| imagesize =

| alt =

| caption =

| pseudonym =

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|6|19}}

| birth_place = Antigua Guatemala

| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|6|19|1891|6|19}}

| death_place = Quetzaltenango

| occupation =

| education =

| alma_mater =

| period =

| genre = novels, essays, poetry

| subject =

| movement =

| notableworks =

| spouse = Amalia ChévezMarta Elena Casaús Arzú: [http://revistas.ucm.es/ghi/11328312/articulos/RCHA0101110219A.PDF Las redes teosóficas de mujeres en Guatemala: la Sociedad Gabriela Mistral, 1920-1940] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222101023/http://revistas.ucm.es/ghi/11328312/articulos/RCHA0101110219A.PDF |date=2012-02-22 }} (Spanish) in Revista Complutense de Historia de América, 2001, p. 222.

| partner =

| children =

| relatives =

| influences =

| influenced =

| awards =

| signature =

| website =

| portaldisp =

}}

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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20021213072916/http://www.ospinas.net/Ospinas/esp/osp_arb_gen.htm Genealogia de la Familia de Ospina].

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.{{Cite web |url=http://mx.geocities.com/ciudaddequetzaltenango/ospina.htm |title=Carlos Wyld Ospina |access-date=2009-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027004943/http://mx.geocities.com/ciudaddequetzaltenango/ospina.htm# |archive-date=2009-10-27 |url-status=dead }} (Spanish). 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

{{Reflist}}