Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío
BornFélix Rubén García Sarmiento
(1867-01-18)18 January 1867
Metapa, today known as Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Died6 February 1916(1916-02-06) (aged 49)
León, Nicaragua
Occupation
  • Poet
  • journalist
  • diplomat
  • writer

Resident Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, Consul of Colombia in Buenos Aires, Consul of Nicaragua in Paris, France,

Consul of Paraguay in Paris, France
Literary movementModernismo
Notable worksAzul, Prosas Profanas y otros poemas, Cantos de vida y esperanza, Canto a la Argentina y otros poemas
Spouse
  • Rafaela Contreras
    (m. 1890; died 1893)
  • Rosario Murillo
    (m. 1893, ?)
  • Francisca Sánchez del Pozo
Signature

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: /dɑːˈr/ dah-REE-oh, Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism.