Roberto Armijo (December 13, 1937, in Chalatenango, El Salvador; † March 23, 1997, in Paris, France) was a Salvadoran poet. Armijo was the lyrical voice of his generation, dubbed the "Committed Generation" by Ítalo López Vallecillos. Living relatives and close ones were important to his life.
Armijo excelled in narrative, essay, theater, and criticism. He belonged to the Círculo Literario Universitario of the Universidad de El Salvador.
Biography Roberto Armijo moved to the capital at the age of ten to continue his studies. As a young man, he was linked to intellectuals from the University Literary Circle such as Roque Dalton, Manlio Argueta, Tirso Canales and José Roberto Cea, among others.
He died on March 23, 1997, as a result of cancer. His work includes poetry (The book of sonnets, When the lamps are lit, The blind night to the heart that sings), theater (Playing blind man's chicken) and novel (Leviathan's asthma), although the genre for which he was most recognized is the essay (Rubén Darío and his intuition of the world, Francisco Gavidia and the odyssey of his genius, or T. S. Eliot, the loneliest poet of the world).
Artwork
La noche ciega al corazón que canta, (poetry) 1959 Seis elegías y un poema, (poetry) 1965 Jugando a la gallina ciega, (theater) 1970 Poesía contemporánea de Centroamérica, co-authored with Rigoberto Paredes, anthology published in Barcelona, 1983 Trilogía de teatro de Roberto Armijo, (theater) 1990 El asma de Leviatán (narrative). Los parajes de la luna y la sangre (poesía) 1996 Cuando se enciendan las lámparas, (poems) in press 1996 Aventura hacia el país perdido, essays in the magazine Cultura .
References
External links Biography and poetic selection of Roberto Armijo
Cuscatla Poem Exercise In The Shape Of A Lyre by Roberto Armijo