Rafael Alfaro

Rafael Alfaro Alfaro SDB (born February 6, 1930 in El Cañavate , Cuenca province , † March 23, 2014 in Granada ) was a Spanish religious priest , poet and journalist .

Life

He studied philosophy and theology in Cordoba and Seville . After he was ordained a priest in 1957 and held his first mass in the Mezquita de Córdoba , he studied Gregorian chant in Paris . He then taught philosophy, literature and music at the Instituto Internacional don Rúa in San Salvador and as director of the Colegio San Bosco in San José in Costa Rica . In 1972 he completed his studies in journalism with a degree in information science in Madrid .

He gave impulses to the poet Francisco Arellano Oviedo and was friends with the poet priest Valentin Arteaga . He worked as a poetry critic in the magazine Reseña and magazines Cultura (San Salvador), Claustro Poético ( Jaén ) and in the Boletín Salesiano .

He himself has published over 25 books, mainly volumes of poetry, and has received national and international awards:

• Premio Nacional de Literatura de El Salvador (1961)
• Premio Cultura Hispánica de Madrid (1963)
• Premio El Ciudad de Madrid (1968)
• Premio Boscán de Barcelona (1969) for the work Voz interior
• Premio Alcaraván (1973)
• Primer Premio Internacional de Poesiá 'Olivo' (1976) for the work Objeto de contemplación
• Premio Café Marfil de Madrid (1977)
• Premio Villa de Rota (1980)
• Premio Ciudad de Cuenca (1984)
• Premio Tiflos (1990)
• Premio José Hierro (1994)
• Premio Florentino Pérez Embid of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (2002) for the work Indagación del otoño
• XXVIII. Premio Internacional Fernando Rielo (Mystical Poetry) for his work Hora de la tarde

Works

• El alma de la fuente , San José de Costa Rica 1971
• Voz interior , Barcelona 1972
• Testimonio sellado: Jaime Ortiz , 1973
• Vamos, Jonás , Salamanca, Imp.Calatrava 1974
• Una llamada al misterio: Cuatro poetas, hoy , 1975
• Tal vez mañana , Torrejón de Ardoz 1978
• Objeto de contemplación , Jaén 1978
• Cables y pájaros , Madrid (9) 1979
• (together with Mercedes Muñoz ), Cables y pájaros , 1979
• Música callada , Cadiz 1981; Madrid 1991
• (together with Teresio Bosco ), Juan Pablo II: “testigo de la esperanza” , Madrid 1982. ISBN 84-7043-261-3
• (together with Enzo Bianco ), Dieron su vida: Monseñor Luis Versiglia y Calixto Caravario , Madrid 1983. ISBN 84-7043-300-8
• Los cantos de Contrebia , Cuenca 1985
• Escondida senda (Antlogía), Madrid 1986
• Tierra enamorada , Madrid 1986
• Concierto en cuatro tiempos para Carlos de la Rica . Cuenca 1988
• La otra claridad , Madrid 1989
• Elegías del RUS , 1993
• Salmos desde la noche , 1993
• Los pájaros regresan a la tarde , Madrid 1994
• Dios del venir: images de Adviento y Navidad , Madrid 1994. ISBN 978-84-7043-815-8
• Xaire poemas marianos , 1998
• Apuntes de Alarcón . Cuenca: Diputación Provincial, 2001
• Indagación del otoño , Madrid 2003

• Don Bosco: Cartas a los niños de todas las edades . ISBN 978-84-7043-353-5
• Con Don Bosco de la mano . ISBN 978-84-7043-637-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary ( memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 26, 2017 ( Spanish ) 
2. ↑ Report on the award ceremony on identes.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Rafael Alfaro in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Bibliography by Ángel Pariente, Diccionario bibliográfico de la poesía del siglo XX
• Seis poemas ilustrados de Rafael Alfaro sobre música