{"id":9558,"date":"2021-09-06T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/personaje\/afan-de-ribera-and-gonzalez-de-arevalo-antonio-joaquin\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:16:04","slug":"afan-de-ribera-and-gonzalez-de-arevalo-antonio-joaquin","status":"publish","type":"personaje","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/afan-de-ribera-and-gonzalez-de-arevalo-antonio-joaquin\/","title":{"rendered":"Af\u00e1n de Ribera y Gonz\u00e1lez de Ar\u00e9valo, Antonio Joaqu\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalist, poet, short story writer and playwright. He studied law and literature in Granada, becoming a judge in this city. Director of the Liceo Art\u00edstico y Literario (Artistic and Literary Lyceum) and full academic of Bellas Artes (Fine Arts) of Granada. Member of the Cofrad\u00eda del Avellano (Brotherhood of Avellano Fountain),<\/strong> along with \u00c1ngel Ganivet and other intellectuals of the late nineteenth century, called “Gaudete el Viejo\u201d (Gaudete the Old Man) (Melchor Almagro<\/a> was “Gaudete el Joven [Gaudete the Young Man]”). He received, among other awards and decorations, the Grand Cross of the Catholic Queen Isabella.<\/p>\n

He was considered one of the most prolific and important writers of his time. His peers called him El Patriarca (The Patriarch). His muse was Granada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a journalist he writes in publications such as La Alhambra<\/em>, directs El Porvenir de Granada newspaper<\/em>, participates in the founding of El Defensor de Granada<\/em> (the main newspaper of Granada that will remain open until the Civil War breaks out, under the direction of Constantino Ruiz Carnero<\/a>). In this last newspaper he worked under the direction of Luis Seco de Lucena. He also participated in other publications of his time, such as the literary magazine Idearium<\/em> or the Catholic newspaper La Verdad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He cultivated all literary genres. In narrative he stood out with a dozen costumbrist works such as On the Banks of the Dauro: Novels, Articles and Captions<\/em> (1875) or Between Beiro and Dauro<\/em>(1898); novels such as A Tense of the Verb Love <\/em> (1885) and By a Hair<\/em> (1885), and the short stories A Rose and a Carnation\u00a0<\/em>and The Donkey Pass<\/em>. He was considered one of the most prolific and important writers of his time from Granada. He lived in the Albaic\u00edn and founded in his residence the so-called\u00a0Academia del Carmen de las Tres Estrellas (House of the Three Stars Academy)<\/strong>, a literary gathering that had been meeting for almost three decades. His companions nicknamed him El Patriarca (The Patriarch). His muse was Granada.<\/p>\n

He died on September 6, 1906.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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