Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra

Cristobal Humberto Ibarra (born May 9, 1920 in Zacatecoluca , † February 1988 in San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran poet, essayist and narrator.

Ibarra studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . As a teenager, he joined the Grupo Seis , an association of avant-garde writers who opposed the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in their works . From 1959 he was First Secretary and Commissioner for Cultural Affairs of the Salvadoran Embassy in Chile. In the mid-1960s he returned to El Salvador and took over the management of the journalism school at the Universidad de El Salvador . For the novel Templaderales (1957) he was awarded the Premio Centralamericano de Novela , for Francisco Gavidia y Rubén Dario ... (1957) the Premio Centralamericano de Ensayo . For the story El cujarón (1958) he received the Premio en los Juegos Florales de San Salvador , for the Cuentos breves para un mundo en crisis (1968) the Premio Juegos Florales Centroamericanos . With his collection of poems Elegía a Oswaldo Escobar Velada he won the 1969 Olimpiada Cultural Centroamericano Prize .

Works

Gritos , lyric poetry, 1944
La extranjera , 1951
Elegia a junio , 1953
Rilke, claves de la creación , 1954
Tembladerales , novel, 1957
Francisco Gavidia y Rubén Darío, semilla y floración del Modernismo , Essays, 1957
El cujarón , short story, 1958

Plagio superior , short story, 1964

Cuentos breves para un mundo en crisis , 1968

Elegía a Oswaldo Escobar Velado , Poetry, 1969

Cuentos de Sima y Cima , 1977

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personal data
SURNAME	Ibarra, Cristóbal Humberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ibarra, Cristobal Humberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Salvadoran poet, storyteller, and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zacatecoluca
DATE OF DEATH	February 1988
Place of death	San Salvador