Author · Paraguay
Elvio Romero
Died in 2004
Elvio Romero was born in Yegros in December 1926, the son of a peasant who carved wood, and at first spoke only Guarani. In Asunción, he frequented the tertulia where Hérib Campos Cervera, Josefina Plá and Augusto Roa Bastos met. A communist activist, he left the country after the civil war of 1947, never again residing there. He gave readings in the Americas, Asia and Europe, received in 1991 the first National Prize for Literature and died in Buenos Aires, where he was his country's cultural attaché, on 19 May 2004.
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- PoetryDías roturadosElvio Romero · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature