Miguel Alfonseca

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Miguel Alfonseca (born January 25, 1942 in Santo Domingo ; † April 6, 1994 ibid) was a Dominican poet , storyteller , playwright and philosopher .

Alfonseca began studying at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo , which he did not finish. He was arrested and tortured as an opponent of the Trujillo regime. In 1965 he was one of the spokesmen for the uprising against the government of Donald Reid Cabral . With René del Risco Bermúdez , Armando Almánzar and Iván García , he was one of the founders of the El Puño group of writers . His book El enemigo was published in the late 1960s . In 1970 he joined La Sociedad Hermética and ended his literary career. His poems have appeared in various magazines. Works such as Isla o promontorio , Arribo de la luz , Primero de mayo and Alba para nosotros , plays and the novel Rancho-tierra have remained unpublished . His stories Delicatessen and Los trajes blancos han vuelto , both of which were selected for the anthologies of Latin American storytellers by Ángel Flores (1983) and Fernando Burgos (1997), are well known.

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