Roque Dalton
Salvadoran poet and essayist
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Roque Antonio Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, journalist, communist activist, and intellectual. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works... Wikipedia
Born: May 14, 1935, San Salvador, El Salvador
Influenced by: Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, T. S. Eliot, and more
Assassinated: May 10, 1975, Quezaltepeque, El Salvador
Parents: Winnall Dalton and María García Medrano
Education: Externado San Jose
Children: 3
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Roque Dalton was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, journalist, political activist, and intellectual. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets.
Roque Dalton - Born in 1935 in El Salvador, Roque Dalton was the author of several influential poetry collections, including Taberna y otros lugares.
May 29, 2013 · The death of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton in 1975 is one of the great tragedies of Latin American literature and of the Latin American left.
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Roque Dalton is one of El Salvador's most celebrated poets, but he was also a revolutionary whose works were once banned in his own country.
Feb 1, 2013 · As far as tragic poets' stories go, Roque Dalton's (El Salvador, 1935-1975) is perhaps the most tragic in Central America.
Poet, essayist, and journalist Roque Dalton grew up in San Salvador, El Salvador. He studied at the University of Santiago, Chile, and the University of San ...
May 12, 2016 · Roque was born into a society with deep class divisions. He came of age against a backdrop of struggle and repression. The native Kakawira, ...
Roque said he had escaped from Salvadoran jails five times, once through the divine intervention of an earthquake. When the prison wall collapsed, he walked out ...
Communist poet from El Salvador, his short life was made up of exiles and imprisonments while he continued to produce poetry of the greatest value, ...
the most ordinary and flowing, almost unparalleled, love in El Salvador. From The Dalmo'ma Anthology, Empty Bowl Press, Port Townsend ...