Julio Valle Castillo
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Julio Valle Castillo (JVC) | |
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| Born | August 10, 1952 |
| Education | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Occupations | poet, painter, essayist, literary critic, piedrero and art critic |
| Known for | Poetry, painting, literary criticism, art criticism |
| Notable work | Las armas iniciales, Ronda tribal para el nacimiento de Sandino, El inventario del paraíso |
| Movement | Modernismo; Nicaraguan poetry of the 1970s |
Julio Valle Castillo (born August 10, 1952), was born in Masaya, Nicaragua. He is a poet, painter, and a literary critic, and art critic.
Valle-Castillo studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the National Autonomous University in Mexico.[1] Valle-Castillo began publishing his poems in Pablo Antonio Cuadra's newspaper supplement, "La Prensa Literaria", in the 1970s.[2] Valle-Castillo later published his first book in 1977, "Las Armas Iniciales". Valle-Castillo, along with Mayra Jiménez,[3] served as editor of "Poesía Libre", a monthly publication published during the Sandinista government.[4]
As of 2006, Julio Valle-Castillo served as the director of the Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura (INC) (Nicaraguan Institute of Culture).[5]
Literary works
- Published[6]
- Las armas iniciales (1977)
- Las primeras notas del laúd (1977)
- Formas migratorias (1979)
- Materia jubilosa (1986)
- Ronda tribal para el nacimiento de Sandino (1981)
- Con los pasos cantados (1998)
- Poetry
- Poetas modernistas de Nicaragua (1978)
- Rimbaud entre nosotros (1993)
- Poesía francesa / Traducciones nicaragüenses (1993);
- Hija del día / Artes poéticas nicaragüenses (1994);
- Nicaragua: cuentos escogidos (1998)
- Cuentos nicaragüenses (2002)
- Essays
- El inventario del paraíso (1986)
- La catedral de León de Nicaragua (2000)
- Las humanidades de la poesía nicaragüense (2001)
- Novel
- Réquiem en Castilla del Oro (1966)
