Otto René Castillo

Otto René Castillo was born in 1936 in Quetzaltenango. Exiled to El Salvador in 1954, after the fall of President Árbenz, he received there in 1955 the Central American Poetry Prize, then in 1957 the international poetry prize of Budapest. He then studied letters in Leipzig, worked in 1962 in Joris Ivens's brigade of filmmakers and returned to Guatemala in 1964, where he directed the municipal theatre of the capital. He died in 1967.

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• PoetryLet's Go!Vámonos patria a caminarOtto René Castillo · 1965Literature