Author · El Salvador
Roque Dalton
Died in 1975
Roque Dalton was born on 14 May 1935 in San Salvador, the son of an American emigrant. A law student in Chile and then in El Salvador, he founded a university literary circle and joined the Communist Party in 1957. Sentenced to death after an arrest, he owed his life to the fall of the government; imprisoned again in 1965, he owed it to an earthquake that brought down the wall of his cell. Exiled in Mexico, Cuba and Prague, he returned clandestinely to his country in 1973 and joined the People's Revolutionary Army, and members of that organisation killed him on 10 May 1975.
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- PoetryTaberna y otros lugaresRoque Dalton · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature