Hérib Campos Cervera

An Asunción-born poet of Spanish family, he brought the avant-garde into Paraguayan poetry. In his lifetime he published a single book, 'Ceniza redimida' (1950), with 28 poems; 'Hombre secreto' appeared after his death. He studied as a youth in Hohenau, wrote literary criticism and spent his last years in exile in Buenos Aires, where he died.