Carlos Obligado
Carlos Obligado (21 May 1889, in
Buenos Aires – 3 February 1949, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine poet, crític and writer, best known for his patriotic lyrics to the song "
Marcha de las Malvinas" (the Argentine name for the
Falklands).
He was the son of poet
Rafael Obligado (the author of "
Santos Vega") and Isabel Gómez Langenheim. He pursued studies at the
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and took his doctorate at the
Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1917.
His first book, "Poemas", was published in 1920. He translated several French poets (
Victor Hugo,
Lamartine,
Alfred de Musset and others). He was a literary critic, lecturer and university professor and served as the director of the Instituto de Literatura Argentina. In 1928 he traveled to Europe, visiting several countries. On his return to Argentina, he was named a dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. He was later named a member of the
Academia Argentina de Letras and the
Real Academia Española. In 1932, he produced a comprehensive translation of the poems of
Edgar Allan Poe and
Percy Shelley as well as a critical study of
Leopoldo Lugones. The Spanish government awarded him the
Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise in 1947. He was manager of the "Bibliotecas Populares" of the Ministry of Education when he died on February 3, 1949.
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