Elvio Romero (1926-2004) was a Paraguayan poet, active in the 1940s and 1950s.

Early life

Elvio Romero was born in

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in 1926. At a young age he became associated with fellow Paraguayan literary figures

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Josefina Plá María Josefina Teodora Plá Guerra Galvany (9 November 1903 in Isla de Lobos, Canary Islands, Spain – 11 January 1999 in Asunción, Paraguay) was a Spanish-born poet, playwright, journalist, art critic, sculptor, ceramicist, and historian. ...

, and Augusto Roa Bastos.

Career

A Communist militant, Romero was forced into exile in Argentina alongside many others after the end of Paraguayan Civil War in 1947, at the age of 20. His time in exile was a strong theme in Romero's subsequent work. He returned to Paraguay after General

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fell from power, and worked in numerous diplomatic posts, including the Paraguayan embassy in

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. He also performed editorial work and gave recitals and conferences in various cultural centres around the Americas and

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. The Guatemalan novelist

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, winner of the

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in 1967, wrote the introduction for Romero's book ''El sol bajo las raices''. As an essayist, he wrote " Miguel Hernández, destiny and poetry" and "El poeta y sus encrucijadas" (1991), which won Paraguay's

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. He also collaborated with the newspaper ''Ultima Hora'', of

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, and various cultural publications in Argentina. He died in May 2004 in

Poetic works

References

''Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo''
* ''Diccionario Biográfico Forjadores del Paraguay'', Primera Edición Enero de 2000. Distribuidora Quevedo de Ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

External links

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