Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( dah-REE-oh, ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement.
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Félix Rubén García Sarmiento 18 January 1867 Metapa, today known as Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
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Died |
6 February 1916 (aged 49) León, Nicaragua
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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