Alfonso Quijada Urías (born 8 December 1940), is a
Salvadoran
Salvadorans (), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly in the United States, with smalle ...
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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
and an author. Quijada has published various poems such as the anthology "De aquí en adelante" (San Salvador), in conjunction with the poets
José Roberto Cea,
Manlio Argueta
Manlio Argueta (born 24 November 1935) is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist. Although he is primarily a poet, he is best known in the English speaking world for his novel '' One Day of Life''. , Tirso Canales and Roberto Armijo. Many of his works deal with the effects of war and the realities of urban life in Central America.
Biography
Quijada was born in
Quezaltepeque, in the
La Libertad Department of El Salvador.
In 1962, he won the second prize in the III Certamen Cultural de la Asociación de Estudiantes de Humanidades de la Universidad de El Salvador. In 1963, he won the third prize from the Juegos Florales de Zacatecoluca. In 1967, he won the first prize for poetry at the Juegos Florales de
Quetzaltenango
Quetzaltenango (, also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela ) is a municipality and namesake department in western Guatemala. The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of above sea level at its lowest part. It may reach above ...
in
Guatemala
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. In 1971 he won first prize at the Bienal de Poesía Latinoamericana in
Panama
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.
In 1981, he moved to Nicaragua, and later to Mexico, where he worked as a journalist. In 2003, he was awarded the "Premio de Poesía
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes (, the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of ''Don Quixote'' and perhaps the most important fi ...
". He now lives in Canada.
["Nuevas Vistas: Curso Uno". Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2006. p. 247.]
Selected works
Poetry
* Poemas (San Salvador, 1967)
* Sagradas escrituras (1969)
* El otro infierno (1970)
* Los estados sobrenaturales y otros poemas (San Salvador, 1971),
* La esfera imaginaria (Vancouver, 1997),
* Es cara musa (San Salvador, 1997)
* Toda razón dispersa (San Salvador, 1998).
Prose
* Cuentos (San Salvador, 1971),
* La fama infame del famoso a(pá)trida (San Salvador, 1979),
* Para mirarte mejor (Tegucigalpa, 1987),
* Lujuria tropical (novela, San Salvador, 1996).
References
External links
Biography
Selwction of poems at palabravirtual.comPoems
1940 births
Living people
People from Quezaltepeque
Salvadoran poets
Salvadoran male poets
Salvadoran emigrants to Canada
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