Mario Arroyo is a
Gibraltarian poet
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and former school teacher. He is the author of ''Profiles'' (1994), a series of bilingual meditations on love, loneliness and death. In 2009 he was described by the Spanish newspaper
El Pais
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as 'un perfecto bilingue'. A study commissioned by the prestigious Spanish cultural body el
Instituto Cervantes
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in 2005 remarked that Arroyo's poetry possessed "indudable inspiración en la experiencia vivida y en la realidad local, aunque a diferencia de otros escritores gibraltareños no cae en reductores localismos, sino que es capaz de dar una significación trascendente a sus reflexiones personales." Arroyo is also a noted dancer. In September 2015, Arroyo was awarded the
Gibraltar Medallion of Honour for his contribution to the arts.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Gibraltarian writers
European poets
Male poets
Male dancers
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