Roque Vallejos (1943 in Asunción – 2 April 2006 in Asunción) was a poet, psychiatrist and essayist from Paraguay.
Background
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
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
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)
References
External links Roque Vallejos on MundoPoesía (in Spanish)