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

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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 edit

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 edit

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)

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External links edit

Roque Vallejos on MundoPoesía (in Spanish)

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