Journalist, Essayist. Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, the son of Josefina Tible Machado and Agustin Washington Gómez Carrillo. As a child, he traveled to Spain with his parents, and was instructed in French by his mother. At 18, he won a scholarship to study in Spain, and in 1892, moved to France where he worked as a journalist. He became part of the literary set in Paris that included James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Emile Zola. There he published his first book, "Esquisses" (1892). In 1895 he became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Other books, "Sensaciones de arte" (1893), and "Del amor, del dolor y del vicio" (1898), followed. In 1898 he returned to Guatemala, where he worked for the election of interim president Manuel Cabrera, who appointed him a consul in Paris. He became a contributing correspondent to newspapers and magazines such as "La Nación" and "La Razón" in Buenos Aires, "Diario de La Marina" in Havana, and "El Liberal," "Blanco y Negro," "La Esfera," "Pluma y Lápiz," "Electra," "El Imparcial" in Madrid. A tireless traveler, he wrote thousands of articles, reporting on events and impressions from all over Europe, Russia, Egypt, Japan, and Palestine. In 1906, he won the Montyon of the Academie Francaise for the French translation of his book "The Japanese Soul." The following year he married Aurora Cáceres, the daughter of a Peruvian president, and bohemian writer; they divorced a year later. In 1916 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. He married Spanish flamenco singer Raquel Meller in 1919, she divorced him a year later for financial reasons. He wrote "The Mystery of Mata Hari's Life and Death" (1923) playing on false rumors he had been involved in her downfall. He married a third time in 1923, to French-Salvadorian writer Consuelo Suncin. He left her a widow 11 months later, his death attributed to an aneurysm following years of excess. In 1947 Guatemala City renamed Concordia Square Enrique Gómez Carrillo Park.