León de Greiff
León de Greiff | |
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| Born | Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler July 22, 1895 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Died | July 11, 1976 (aged 80) Bogotá, D. E., Colombia |
| Pen name | Leo le Gris, Gaspar de la Nuit |
| Occupation | Poet, civil servant, diplomat. |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Period | 1915-1976 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subject | solitude, the tedium of existence, and the past |
| Literary movement | Modernismo |
| Notable works | Tergiversaciones (1925) |
| Notable awards | List of Awards
Order of the Polar Star – Sweden 1964 Knight Order of Boyaca – Colombia 1965 Commander National Prize of Literature – Colcultura 1970 Jorge Zalamea Medal – Calarcá 1971 Symbolic Axe of Antioquia – Medellín 1971 Star of Antioquia – Antioquia 1971 Gold Rank Civic Medal General Santander – Ministry of National Education 1971 Premio Antioquia – Coltejer 1973 Order of San Carlos – Colombia 1975 Grand Officer |
| Spouse | María Teresa Matilde Bernal Nicholls (m. 1927 - † 1966) |
| Children | Astrid de Greiff Bernal Boris de Greiff Bernal Hjalmar de Greiff Bernal Axel de Greiff Bernal |
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Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler (July 22, 1895 – July 11, 1976), was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von Der Nacht. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín.