Luciano Durán Böger (November 12, 1904 – October 18, 1996) was a Bolivian poet, writer and politician. Son of Luciano Duran Pérez and Aurora Böger Rivero, was born in 1904 in Santa Ana, capital of the Yacuma province of the Department of Beni in Bolivia,CHÁVEZ TABORGA, César:Expresión Poética del Beni, Ed. Plural, La Paz - Bolivia, 2005. , 9789990563870 and died in 1996 in the city of

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. Poet and novelist, Durán Böger was also a writer of different literary supplements of Bolivian newspapers. His artistic, political and journalistic work allowed him to give lectures in different countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. Durán Böger was also a self-taught painter. He exhibited his works in La Paz and Potosí (1968 and 1980).BLANCO MAMANI, Elías: ''Enciclopedia Gesta de autores de la literatura boliviana'', La Paz - Bolivia, Ed. Plural, 2005, p. 72. , 9789990563627

Politics and the artist

Duran Böger, was representative of the students in the Major University of San Andrés in

and leader of the University Youth; founder and Secretary of Organization of the first Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Workers (Spanish: Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores de Bolivia, CSTB) and the Workers' Party of Bolivia (Spanish: Partido Obrero, PO) in 1937; founder and militant of the Communist Party of Bolivia and APRA in the Peru. He was also the founder of the ''Moxos Cultural Centre'' in 1938.

Imprisonment and exile

Durán Böger was imprisoned by the Government of Bolivia between 1932 and 1935 due as a university leader, objected publicly to the Chaco War.BLANCO MAMANI, Elías:Diccionario Cultural Boliviano. Consultado e
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en marzo de 2012 His position against the war cost him also the expulsion of the University Council and the Bolivian University system. Due to his political ideology, he was exiled from Bolivia and settled in Peru, Chile, Switzerland, France and Spain.

The poem of the handkerchief of the National Stadium

In 1973, staying in Chile, Durán Böger was arrested as a political prisoner after the coup that overthrew the government of

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, being held in the Nro Camerin. 3 at the national stadium of Chile in the city of Santiago of Chile, where on 9 October 1973, on the occasion of the transfer of detainees Bolivians of the camerin, requested a paper to write a poem of farewell, there being no paper, asked Santiago Cavieres, writer, poet and lawyer Chilean, also held, that will reach you a panuelo. In 1973, while in Chile, Böger Duran was arrested as a political prisoner after the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende, being held at the National Stadium of Chile in

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, where the October 9, 1973, on the occasion of the transfer of detainees Bolivians, asked for a paper to write a farewell poem, there being no paper, asked Santiago Cavieres, writer, poet and Chilean lawyer also detained, he reach his handkerchiefVerónica Torres;
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/ref> in which Duran Boger wrote: The handkerchief was signed by prisoners of the camerin and preserved by Santiago Cavieres, who gave it to his wife before being transferred to detention field of Chacabuco. Several years later he donated it to the Museum of memory and Humans Rights, where is listed with the registration number 00000109000001000001 under the following description: Documentary filmmaker Javier Bertin Mardel produced the documentary ''The handkerchief of the National Stadium'' in which through the testimony of Santiago Cavieres, tells the story of the farewell poem written by Duran Boger in a handkerchief, and how Chilean and Bolivian, detained at the National Stadium of Chile, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, organized all kinds of activities to stay mentally healthy and survive the closure and torture based on mutual solidarity. The documentary is also part of the collection of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in

under registration number 00000095000001000001.

Work

Between 1960 and 1972, Durán Böger published six literary works. He is a prominent Bolivian authors of the 20th century and one of the most representative writers of the Bolivian East, his work ''En las Tierras de Enín'' (In the Land of Enin) is regarded among the best Bolivian novels.MESA GISBERT, Carlos D. "Las 10 mejores novelas de la literatura boliviana: la vuelta a la literatura en diez mundos". Plural editores, 2004., 9789990563078. p.18 Durán Boger was awarded with several awards, including: the 'Golden violet' in the floral games of Santa Cruz (1960). In ''Radiografía Íntima del Poeta'' (Intimate X-ray of the poet), Duran Boger wrote: "the poet is a living paradox in a rock crystal. In his work, nothing remains hidden. Feelings, emotions, desires, wishes, hopes, disappointments, loves and desires, everything from the most trivial to the transcendent, the poets says and refuses his own being". In his poem ''My origin and destiny'', Luciano Durán Böger described himself in the following way:

List of works

* Sequía (Drought), novel, 1960 * Geografía de la Sangre (Geography of blood), poetry, 1963 * Poetas del Beni (Poets of Beni), essay, 1963 * Inundación: Novela para un Continente en Lucha (Flood: Novel for a continent in fight), novel, 1965 * En las Tierras de Enin (In the land of Enin ), novel, 1967 * Sangre de Esmeralda (Blood of Emerald), novel, 1972

References

External links

Picture of the handkerchief
in which Luciano Duran Böger wrote the poem "Adios" (Goodbye) at the National Stadium of Chile, now part of the collection of th
Museum of Memory and Human Rights
in Chile. * Documentar
El pañuelo del Estadio Nacional (The National Stadium handkerchief)
of Javier Bertin Marde, where tells the story of the poem written by Luciano Durán Böger in detention in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. * Biography and poems of Luciano Durán Böger i

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