Alfonso Quijada Urías

Alfonso Quijada Urías (December 8 1940-) is a Salvadoran poet and narrator. He is from Quezaltepeque, in the La Libertad Department.

Urías has published various poems such as the anthology "De aquí en adelante" (San Salvador), in conjunction with the poets José Roberto Cea, Manlio Argueta, Tirso Canales and Roberto Armijo.

In 1962, he won the second prize of the II Certamen Cultural de la Asociación de Estudiantes de Humanidades de la Universidad de El Salvador. In 1963, he won the third prize from the Juegos Florales de Zacatecoluca. In 1967, he won the first prize for poetry at the Los Juegos Florales de Quetzaltenango in Guatemala. In 1971 he won first rpize at the Bienal de Poesía Latinoamericana in Panama. Recently he won the Cervantes prize known as the "Premio de Poesía Instituto Cervantes" in 2003. [ [http://www.rfi.fr/fichiers/Langues/rfi_espagnol_concours6.asp www.rfi.fr] ]

Selected works

Poetry

* Poemas (San Salvador, 1967)
* Sagradas escrituras (1969)
* El otro infierno (1970)
* Los estados sobrenaturales y otros poemas (San Salvador, 1971),
* La esfera imaginaria (Vancouver, 1997),
* Es cara musa (San Salvador, 1997) y
* Toda razón dispersa (San Salvador, 1998).

Narrator

* Cuentos (San Salvador, 1971),
* La fama infame del famoso a(pá)trida (San Salvador, 1979),
* Para mirarte mejor (Tegucigalpa, 1987),
* Lujuria tropical (novela, San Salvador, 1996).

References

External links

* [http://www.artepoetica.net/Alfonso%20Quijada.htm Biography]
* [http://www.palabravirtual.com/index.php?ir=crit.php&wid=751&show=poemas&p=Alfonso+Quijada+Ur%EDas+(Kijadur%EDas) Selwction of poems at palabravirtual.com]
* [http://www.poema-de-amor.com.ar/mostrar-poema.php?poema=332 Poems]