Roque Vallejos

Roque Vallejos (1943 in Asunción – 2 April 2006 in Asunción) was a poet, psychiatrist and essayist from Paraguay.

Background

He was a forensic surgeon in the High Court of Justice.

He served as a member and the president of the Academia de la Lengua Paraguaya.

Career as a writer

He belonged to the so-called 60 generation. This group was concerned with social poetry and politics during Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship (1954-1989).

Works

Los arcángeles ebrios (The Drunk Archangels), (1964)
Poemas del Apocalipsis (Poems from Apocalypse), (1969)
Los labios del silencio (Silence Lips), (1986)
Tiempo baldío (Vain Time), (1988)

References

External links

Roque Vallejos on MundoPoesía (in Spanish)

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