Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Enrique Gómez Tible, better known as Enrique Gómez Carrillo (Guatemala City, February 27, 1873 - Paris, November 29, 1927), was a Guatemalan literary critic, writer, journalist and diplomat. He wrote about eighty books, of various genres, although his international chronicles stand out mainly, in which he exercised a truly modernist prose and was called the "Prince of Chroniclers." He promoted the government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera as consul in Madrid, London, Hamburg and Paris and is also famous for his bohemian and traveling life and for his marriages to the writers and artists Aurora Cáceres (1905-1906), Raquel Meller (1919 -1920) and Consuelo Suncín (1926-1927).