Roque Vallejos

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Roque Vallejos (Asunción 1943 - Asunción, 2 April 2006) was a poet, psychiatrist and essayist from Paraguay.

Background

He was a forensic surgeon in the High Court of Justice.

He served as a member and the president of the Academia de la Lengua Paraguaya.

Career as a writer

He belonged to the so-called 60 generation. This group was concerned with social poetry and politics during Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship (1954-1989).

Works

Los arcángeles ebrios (The Drunk Archangels), (1964)
Poemas del Apocalipsis (Poems from Apocalypse), (1969)
Los labios del silencio (Silence Lips), (1986)
Tiempo baldío (Vain Time), (1988)

External links

Roque Vallejos on MundoPoesía (in Spanish)

Roque Vallejos was a poet and a psychiatrist.

Authority control	VIAF: 19919888 ISNI: 0000 0000 5935 1148 SUDOC: 060283831

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Name	Vallejos, Roque
Alternative names
Short description	Paraguayan poet
Date of birth	1943
Place of birth
Date of death	2 April 2006
Place of death

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