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Claribel Alegria
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Claribel Alegria, born in Esteli, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of
the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. She
left her family's Nicaraguan coffee plantation to spend her
childhood in exile in El Salvador. Her writing of the 1950s and
1960s reflects the views of the "Committed Generation" of Central
America, seeking social and political justice for its citizens. She
shared the Casas de las Americas poetry prize in 1978 with
Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli. In 1979, when the Sandinistas
overthrew the Somoza regime, she returned to Nicaragua to help it
rebuild. While both countries claim her, she credits the 1980
assassination of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero as the pivotal
event of her revolutionary commitment.
Alegria's mature work reflects her anger and sense of loss over
the murdered and "disappeared" throughout Latin America. "Because
of them I called myself a cemetery," she notes. She praises women
poets giving voice to the victims of state terror. Her major works
include I Survive (1978), Flowers from the Volcano (1981), Sorrow
(1999), and Casting Off (2003). In this volume, published in Madrid
as Otredad in 2011, she separates her writing from her daily
existence: "She who writes is the other one.""
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