Pompeyo del Valle

Pompeyo del Valle was born on 26 October 1929 in Tegucigalpa, in 1928 according to other sources, the son of Carlos del Valle y Soldevilla and Carmen Moncada Rivera. A journalist at El Cronista and El Día, he later edited the national university's journal. In 1957 he travelled to the Soviet Union; in 1962 the police searched his home, and in 1963 he was arrested and exiled to Mexico and Europe, returning only in 1970. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1981 and died on 23 August 2018 in Comayagua.

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• PoetryLa ruta fulgurantePompeyo del Valle · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature