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Eduardo Martín de la Cámara

b. 1873

A Spanish writer and journalist with strong ties to Manila, he is best remembered for gathering Filipino poetry in Spanish into one landmark anthology. His work offers a vivid glimpse of the literary world linking Spain and the Philippines in the early 20th century.

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Parnaso Filipino

Parnaso Filipino

by Eduardo Martín de la Cámara

About the author

Born in 1873, Eduardo Martín de la Cámara was a Spanish author whose career was closely connected to the Philippines. Records available through Wikisource and the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes list him as living from 1873 to 1926, and his surviving work places him among the writers who moved between literary and journalistic circles in Spain and Manila.

He is best known today as the compiler of Parnaso Filipino: Antología de poetas del Archipiélago Magallánico, published in 1922. That collection brought together poetry written in Spanish in the Philippines and remains the work most often associated with his name.

Archival material from the Miguel de Cervantes library also shows him working as a correspondent in Madrid for El Mercantil, a Spanish newspaper in Manila, in 1910. Alongside this journalistic work, library records also connect him with other historical and literary publications, showing a writer interested in cultural history as well as literary preservation.