Mateo Dumon Quesada

He was born on April 24, 1901. When he was approximately 16 years old, he began to write “Gauchos” sonnets and his first book called El Sol en el Rastrojo (The Sun in the Stubble) was published afterwards.  
His most outstanding books were Entre Ríos written in 1925; Liberacion (Liberation), his book of mystic sonnets that came out in 1939, and Poemas Chúcaros (Sullen Poems).

He died at the age of 53 in Gualeguaychú on May 13, 1954.

(Translated by Sol Breda)