Considered one of the greatest spanish writer poets. Born on 11th June 1896 in Puerto Ruiz, near Gualeguay (Entre Ríos), city where he would live until 1942, when he moved to Paraná. Except for several runaways to Buenos Aires and his visit to China and the Soviet Union (for which this book accounts) he did not want to leave his province. He wrote a single work; On the willow aura, that comprises thirteen books: El agua y la noche (1933), El alba sube (1937), El ángel inclinado (1938), La rama hacia el este (1940), El álamo y el viento (1948), El aire commovido (1949), La mano infinita (1951), La brisa profunda (1954), El alma y las Colinas (1956), De las raíces y del cielo (1958), El junco y la corriente, El Gualeguay and La orilla que se abisma. Ortiz died in Paraná, on 2nd September 1978.