Otilio Vigil Díaz

Otilio Andrés Marcelino Celestino Vigil Díaz, commonly known as Vigil Díaz (1880–1961) was a Dominican poet and writer, remembered as an initiator of modern Dominican poetry and the creator of the vanguard literary tendency, Vedrinismo.

Literary career

Greatly influenced by the French literature of that era, Diaz’s travels to Paris, New York, and Cuba in the early years of the twentieth century marked his literary production. He was 32 years old when he published his first book, Góndolas, of prose poetry.

Díaz's poems and essays were published in a multitude of journals, including Cromos, Letras, La Cuna de América, Renacimiento, Cosmopolita, Bahoruco, El día ético and Blanco y Negro. For many years, he wrote the "Fatamorgana" column, which first appeared in the Listín Diario, later in La Opinión and finally in La Nación. His most famous work, Arabesco, published in November of 1917 in the literary journal La Primada de América, is remembered as the first introduction of free verse poetry in Dominican poetry .

Diaz died in Santo Domingo on January 20, 1961.

Works Góndolas (1912) Miserere patricio (1915) Arabesco (1917) Jonondio (1919) Galeras de pafos (1921) Del sena al ozama (1922) Música del ayer (1925) Orégano (1949) Lilis y Alejandrito (1956) Juan Daniel (1957) Profesión de fe Cándido Espuela Rapsodia