Pedro Mir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pedro Mir

Dominican Republic writer

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1913

Place of Birth: San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic

Date of Death: 11-Jul-2000

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet

Nationality: Dominican Republic

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry. His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery.
Soon he married a young Puerto Rican girl and had a son whom he named Pedro Julio.