About Luis Chamizo
Lived 1894 – 1945 (aged 50–51). Luis Chamizo was a Spanish lawyer, writer, poet and mayor.
Luis Florencio Chamizo Trigueros (Guareña (Badajoz), 7 November 1894 –Madrid, 24 December 1945) was a Spanish writer in Castilian and "Castúo", a dialect in Extremadura. He was born within a humble family and he started writing poems secretly.
He went later to Madrid and Seville, where he graduated from a high school and a commercial school. After finishing studies in law, he returned to his native village.
In 1921 he moved to Guadalcanal (Seville), where he met his future wife and the mother of his five daughters, Virtudes Cordo Nogales.
In 1924 he was elected, accidentally, mayor of Guadalcanal and was chosen as a member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras. Las Brujas (1932)
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Who was Luis Chamizo?
Spanish writer in Castilian and Castúo
When was Luis Chamizo born?
Luis Chamizo was born in 1894 in Guareña.
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Luis Chamizo died in 1945 in Madrid.
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Luis Chamizo was a lawyer, writer, poet and mayor.
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Luis Chamizo was Spanish.
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