- Jorge Camacho
"'Jorge Camacho ( Armado )
"' (born 1966) is a writer in
Esperanto and Spanish.Camacho was born in
Zafra ,Spain and learned Esperanto in 1980. He was a member of the Academy of Esperanto from 1992 until 2001. Since 1995 he has worked inBrussels as an interpreter for theEuropean Union from English and Finnish into Spanish.Camacho was elected to the
Academy of Esperanto in 1992, but onAugust 15 ,2001 he announced his resignation due to disappointment with the Esperanto movement. However, he remains active in Esperanto and continues to review literary works.Works
Camacho became famous for his poems and short stories in the late 1980s, for which he received several prizes in the "Belartaj Konkursoj de UEA". He won the
Grabowski Prize in 1992.Camacho was in the early 1990s considered a member of the so-called "Ibera Skolo" ("Iberian School") of Esperanto writers along with three other inhabitants of the
Iberian peninsula .In the 1990s, Camacho began to publicly oppose
Giorgio Silfer for his interpretation of the political view "Raumism ". He wrote "La Majstro kaj Martinelli" ("The Master and Martinelli"), a biting satire of Silfer (inspired by the similarly-titled novel ofMikhail Bulgakov ), and criticised his ideology in "La liturgio de la foiro" ("The Liturgy of the Fair").Poetry
* "Ibere libere" (with
Miguel Fernández ,Gonçalo Neves kajLiven Dek , pseudonym of Miguel Gutiérrez, 1993)* "Celakantoj" ("Coelacanths"; poems written in Esperanto c. 1989-1995, 2004)
* "Saturno" ("Saturn"; bilingual collection of poems written both in Spanish and Esperanto c. 1995-2004, 2004)
* "Eklipsas" (" [It] eclipses"; collection of poems written mainly in Esperanto 2004-2006, with translations into Spanish, 2007)
Editorial work
Jorge Camacho will be the editor-in-chief of the new literature almanach "Beletra Almanako" to be issued in autumn 2007.
Blog
[http://jorgesaturno.blogspot.com/ Jorge Camacho]
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