El Salvador, 1973
Poet and writer, he was born in San Salvador, El Salvaror, in 1973. He is an Arts and Letters graduate of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA). He has received several literary awards, both national and internationally. Among the most outstanding ones there are the Premio Nacional de Novela Corta (National Prize for Short Story), organized by the National Counsel for Arts and Culture of El Salvador, CONCULTURA (2003 and 2006) and the Gran Maestre de Poesia Nacional de El Salvador, which he received after getting three National Poetry Prizes in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
Published Books: The Unending Day (Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos de El Salvador, 2004), A Very Long Spring (bilingual edition French-Spanish, Colección Premio Charles Perrault, Alianze Française, El Salvador), Tuesday Afternoon, in the collection of the Premio Hispanoamericano de Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 2004, The Room at the End of the House (Valparaíso, 2013) and November (Planeta México, 2015).
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Literary Genres: contemporary fiction
Published at: Planeta México - Valparaíso
Antonia Kerrigan
