Julio Valle Castillo
{{Short description|Nicaraguan poet, painter, and literature/art critic}}
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Julio Valle Castillo (born August 10, 1952), was born in Masaya, Nicaragua. He is a poet, painter, and a literary critic, and art critic.
Early life and career
Valle-Castillo studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the National Autonomous University in Mexico.{{cite news|title=Julio Valle Castillo |url=http://www.dariana.com/diccionario/julio_valle_castillo.htm |access-date=2007-09-20 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915121234/http://www.dariana.com/diccionario/julio_valle_castillo.htm |archive-date=2007-09-15 }} Valle-Castillo began publishing his poems in Pablo Antonio Cuadra's newspaper supplement, "La Prensa Literaria", in the 1970s.{{cite news | first=Carlos | last=Tünnermann Bernheim | title=Julio Valle - Castillo | url=http://archivo.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2002/agosto/10-agosto-2002/cultural/cultural2.html | work=El Nuevo Diario | access-date=2007-09-20 | language=es | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703121027/http://archivo.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2002/agosto/10-agosto-2002/cultural/cultural2.html | archive-date=2007-07-03 }} Valle-Castillo later published his first book in 1977, "Las Armas Iniciales". Valle-Castillo, along with Mayra Jiménez,{{cite book |author=Craven, David |title=Art and revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 |url=https://archive.org/details/artrevolutioninl0000crav |url-access=registration |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2002 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/artrevolutioninl0000crav/page/137 137] |isbn=0-300-08211-8 }} served as editor of "Poesía Libre", a monthly publication published during the Sandinista government.{{cite book |author=Whisnant, David E. |title=Rascally signs in sacred places: the politics of culture in Nicaragua |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |year=1995 |pages=204 |isbn=0-8078-4523-X }}
As of 2006, Julio Valle-Castillo served as the director of the Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura (INC) (Nicaraguan Institute of Culture).{{cite news | first=Eunice | last=Shade | title=Hay democratización en la cultura | url=http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/02/13/variedades/12538 | work=El Nuevo Diario | access-date=2007-09-21 | language=es | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731075549/http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/02/13/variedades/12538 | archive-date=2012-07-31 }}
Literary works
- 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)
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070915121234/http://www.dariana.com/diccionario/julio_valle_castillo.htm Julio Valle Castillo] - Dariana; Diccionario de escritores nicaragüenses {{in lang|es}}
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Category:20th-century Nicaraguan poets
Category:21st-century Nicaraguan poets
Category:Nicaraguan male poets
Category:Nicaraguan art critics
Category:21st-century Nicaraguan artists