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parents born in Nicaragua Nicaraguan salvadoreños.A the age of eight, Joy witnessed the slaughter of more than thirty thousand indigenous people in the Salvador.Vivió in the U.S.. UU. by many years and married the American writer, Darwin J. Flakoll. In 1985, Joy returned to Nicaragua to help resurención of Nicaragua after the civil war. She believes in nonviolence and that she has personally seen the violent slaughter of peasants in 1932 in El Salvador,
As a writer and poet is internationally renowned and has received several international awards such as the Casa de las Americas of Cuba in 1978 for his book I survive. Among his works are several historical novels such as Somoza, case closed: The story of an execution (1993) which speaks of the life of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. This book and others were written in collaboration Flakoll with her husband. His work (poetry, novels and short stories) along the lines of its time, the complaint seeks social and human rights claims with an anti-literary language sometimes.
Casa de las Americas Prize, 1978
Authors Poetry Award Independent, 2000
Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government.
NO CATCH ME LIVE This book is a tribute to the struggle and delivery of Salvadoran women, tells the story of the revolutionary commander Eugenia (Ana Maria Castillo) who wants to see the liberation of his people, and has testimonies of other women who were related to it and those who knew her by reference to his exploits
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This is the story of the life and death of Commander Eugene of the Salvadorean guerrilla forces, as seen Through the eyes of her comraders, and Told by one of El Salvador 's foremost writers.
Drawn from interviews with her family and Those Who Fought Beside her, the book Reconstructs Eugenia's youth, her growing involment resitance in the Movement, and brings the war of liberation vividly to life. together the accounts mark the progress of Eugenia, "a comrade always in the process of development" in all aspects of her life, as political leader, soldier, revolutionary, proletarian, mother and wife.
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Claribel Alegría was born in Estelí, Nicaragua in 1924 and grew up in El Salvador. She has long been recognized as a major voice in the struggle for liberation in El Salvador, and in Central America. She has published over forty books including many volumes of poetry, a number of novels and a book of children's stories. Ten of her books of poetry and fiction have been translated into English, including Ashes of Izalco, Luisa in Realityland, Family Album, Fugues, Thresholdsand Sorrowfrom Curbstone Press. She has Received Several awards in Latin America and Spain, and her book of poetry, I survive, Received at Casa de las Americas Prize.
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