Roque Vallejos

Roque Vallejos was born in Asunción on 20 August 1943. A pupil at the San José school, where Josefina Plá was among his teachers, he published his first collection at seventeen, while still at school. A medical graduate of the national university, he was a forensic psychiatrist for the courts, a critic, an anthologist and a columnist for Última Hora; an essay on the literature of his country as an expression of national reality, published three times, won a prize. A member and then president of the Paraguayan Academy of the Language, he died in Asunción on 2 April 2006.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLos arcángeles ebriosRoque Vallejos · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature