Ernesto Fernández Arrondo

Cuban poet and journalist. He cultivated journalism and ended up becoming one of the prominent figures of the Cuban press of his time, in which he played a relevant role as an editor of the newspaper Diario de la Marina.

In his role as a writer, Ernesto Fernández Arrondo stood out for cultivating a poetic work of pronounced lyricism tempered by sensitivity and delicacy.

In the years 1921 and 1922 he won the poetry contests of the Juegos Florales de Oriente, Cienfuegos and Cárdenas. He obtained the National Prize for poetry from the Ministry of Education. Among his works stand out Bronces de libertad (1923), Inquietud (1925), Hacia mí mismo (1950).

A distinguished literary figure, poet and journalist, who managed to overcome his physical ailments with his great journalistic and poetic calling.

He was a poet of classical essence, imprinting modern airs to his lyric work. He was perhaps the Cuban poet of the modern era who most fully achieved the idealization of the amorous theme and the one who imprinted it with the most philosophical transcendence.

His name figures, by its own right, in an eminent place in the Cuban Parnassus. He sang to the Homeland and its heroes and sang to Love in all its facets.

As a journalist, he knew how to renew daily the interest in the minds of his readers, won over by fluid and accurate prose, as the daily chronicle demands, managing to be entrusted with the responsibility of creating the literary supplement of Diario de la Marina.

Still quite young, he published his first book Bronces de Libertad of patriotic tone, which was followed by Inquietud, in which the sweetly amorous poet appears, and Tránsito, which merited great praise from the public and critics endorsed by his later work.

Ernesto Fernández Arrondo was a poet of tradition, a man all light with amnesia of the gray, a man of profound religious faith, whose spirit rose above human miseries.

He was an intellectual luxury that the Villa de Güines allowed itself, lulled on beautiful tropical nights by the murmuring waters of the Mayabeque and the lyrical accents of his, its poet, who carried it always in his heart. He died in his native Villa on June 26, 1956.

Source: Círculo Guinero.org