Jorge enrique adoum biography facts

His father Francisco Adoum was Lebanese and migrated to Ecuador where he made Arabic-to-Spanish translations, painted, sculpted, composed music, practiced natural medicine, and wrote more than 40 volumes on occult sciences and masonry which he published under the pseudonym "Mago Jefa".

Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat.

He also had a private practice for hypnotism, magnetism and suggestion, and made numerous healings considered miraculous in his time. Since he traveled to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro in at 61 years old. In Adoum married Magdalena Jaramillo Cabezas with whom he had 2 daughters. He later divorced Magdalena.

This was the first time the award was given to a foreigner.

Biography.

Adoum was Pablo Neruda 's personal secretary for nearly two years in Chile. Unable to return to Ecuador because of the military dictatorship of , he worked in the People's Republic of China. From he worked in Beijing China and then in Geneva and Paris. In he returned to his homeland. Adoum married Nicole Rouan from Gimel, Switzerland in She died on July 13, Adoum also translated works from the following authors into the Spanish language: T.

Hedeen and Victor Rodriguez Nunez.