Iván Figueroa (b. 1974) is a

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and

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from

Sahuaripa Sahuaripa is a town in the Mexican state of Sonora, municipality of Sahuaripa. The area is 5,694.4 km². with a population of 5,792 in 2005. The town and municipal seat had a population of 3,807 in 2000. Location The municipal seat is loc ...

, Sonora,

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. Figueroa has received awards from the Nacional de Poesía Homenaje a

San Juan del Río San Juan del Río is a city (2010 census pop. 241,699) and administration of the surrounding San Juan del Río Municipality (pop. 208,462) in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The population in for the municipality is 268,408 as of 2015. ...

in 2006, the Concurso de Libro Sonorense in 2002 and 2006, the Premio Nacional de Poesía San Román in 2006, the Premio Nacional de Poesía Juegos Trigales del Valle del Yaqui Bartolomé Delgado León in 2005 and the Concurso Estatal de Poesía Alonso Vidal in 1999. Figueroa's works include ''La luz a mediodía'', ''Isocronías temporales'', ''Cielo geográfico'', ''Transitorial'', ''Teorías'' and ''The American Poems''.

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Mexican male novelists 21st-century Mexican poets Mexican male poets Writers from Sonora 1974 births Living people 21st-century Mexican male writers People from Sahuaripa Municipality {{mexico-writer-stub