Juan Felipe Toruño (León, Nicaragua, 1 May 1898 - San Salvador, El Salvador, 31 August 1980) was a Nicaraguan writer.
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His writings often blend fiction and history through metaphor, exhibiting concern for social justice and political themes, as in the novel El Silencio (1938; The Silence), which uses the silence following an incestuous relationship and the abandonment of the resulting infant to reflect political repression after the 1936 U.S. occupation of Nicaragua. In the story “Chupasangre” (1945), two American criminals are killed by a chupasangre —a poisonous tree indigenous to the Nicaraguan ...] ''El silencio'' (1935) was awarded the prize in Concurso del Libro Americano,
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban ) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas. Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish ''Bahia de Matanzas''), east ...
, Cuba, 1938. The story ''Chupasangre'' (1945) won Premio Internacional "Alfonso Hernández Catá" de Cuento in
La Habana, Cuba.
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1898 births
1980 deaths
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