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Rodrigo Royo
RODRIGO ROYO (1922-1982) was a Spanish journalist and writer.
He was born Rodrigo Royo Masía in Ayora, Spain in 1922. In 1941 he enlisted in the División Azul (Blue Division) of t...view moreRODRIGO ROYO (1922-1982) was a Spanish journalist and writer.
He was born Rodrigo Royo Masía in Ayora, Spain in 1922. In 1941 he enlisted in the División Azul (Blue Division) of the Spanish Army and fought on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded. On his return to Spain he wrote several accounts of his war experiences. He studied at the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo (Official School of Journalism), graduating in 1944. He also studied law and political science at the Universidad Central de Madrid (Central University of Madrid). He subsequently became a foreign correspondent for the Arriba newspaper in Washington, D.C., and also collaborated with publications such as Haz magazine and the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia Española.
Royo was the editor of Arriba from 1960-1962 before launching the newspaper SP, a Falangist editorial line that maintained a critical position against the Opus Dei. Royo was appointed editor of the newspaper Informaciones in 1980.
He died in Madrid in 1982.
ANTHONY KERRIGAN (1918-1991) was an American poet and translator of works by Spanish and Latin American writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Camilo Jose Cela and Jose Ortega y Gasset. He also translated Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, which earned Kerrigan a National Book Award in 1973.
His own poetry was published in three collections: Lear in the Tropic of Paris (1952), Espousal in August (1968) and At the Front Door of the Atlantic (1969).
He was born on March 14, 1918 in Winchester, Massachusetts, but lived in Cuba until the age of 12. In 1988, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him a grant for lifetime contributions to American letters. He was also a senior guest scholar at the University of Notre Dame and at Indiana University.
He died in Bloomington, Indiana, on March 7, 1991, aged 72.view less