Biografía:
San Salvador, 1933 Roque Dalton graduated from the universities of El Salvador, Mexico and Chile. His poetry broke free from known patterns and beaten tracks used by others. His poetry is equally wise and faces up to the traditional way of looking at El Salvador as a nation. However, some of his poems' language loses validity –especially in his early years- as they get invaded by rhetoric. Those early verses turned up like verbal buildings brimming with unusual ties among the most dissimilar and opposite elements. After his first book entitled Tavern And Other Places, he managed to develop all his poetic vision of rupture and inconformity with everything about life as he started to merge his political experiences with his poetry and general literature. He was forced to live in exile for a number of years and took advantage of that situation to travel to different nations, especially from the former Socialist bloc.He also put out a couple of monographs and countless articles that eventually got published in several Latin American magazines. His novel Tavern And Other Places won the Casa de las American Prize in 1968.
