Ricardo Lindo Fuentes

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Ricardo Lindo (2009)

Ricardo Lindo Fuentes (born February 5, 1947 in San Salvador - † October 23, 2016 ) was a Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright and essayist.

The son of the writer and diplomat Hugo Lindo and brother of the historian Héctor Lindo grew up in Chile from 1953 and in Colombia from 1958, where his father worked as an ambassador. In 1960 he returned to El Salvador and attended the Colegio Santa Cecilia in Santa Tecla. In 1964 he went to Spain and studied philosophy at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. From 1968 to 1974 he studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1970 he was appointed Salvadoran cultural attaché in France and a member of the Salvadoran delegation to UNESCO . In 1974 he became a member of the Salvadoran Mission at the United Nations in Geneva.

In his home country, Lindo worked as director of the ARS magazine of the Secretaría de Cultura , the Sala Nacional de Exposiciones and Director Nacional de Artes of the Ministry of Education and (until 2010) as a lecturer at the Centro Nacional de Artes (CENAR). He took part in research on prehistoric paintings in the department of Morazán, did research in the field of indigenous music and oral traditions and had several group and solo exhibitions as a painter. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cultura (Literatura) CONCULTURA for his literary work, which includes all genres from poetry and epic to drama and essay .

Works

  • Equis, equis equis , 1968
  • Rara avis in terra , 1972
  • Jardines (with drawings by Salvador Choussy ), 1981 and 1983
  • Ajedrez , 1984
  • Las monedas bajo la lluvia (with drawings by Salvador Choussy), 1985
  • La pintura en El Salvador , 1986
  • Cuentos del mar , 1987
  • El señor de la casa del tiempo , 1988, 2004
  • Morería de papel , 1989
  • Lo que dice el río Lempa , 1990
  • El esplendor de la aldea de arcilla , 1991
  • Las estrellas y las piedras (with Edgardo Quijano ), 1992
  • El nacimiento de la flor , 1994
  • Tierra , 1996
  • Cuentos y leyendas de amor para niños , 1998
  • Arca de los olvidos Antología , 1998
  • El canto aún cantado , 1999
  • Historia del barco embrujado , 2000
  • Cuscatlán de las aguas azules , 2001
  • Oro, pan y ceniza . 2001
  • La burra de Suchitoto , 2002
  • 400 ojos de agua , 2003
  • Cuscatlán aux Bleues , 2003
  • Tía Bubu, Tita y Lipe en el reino de Epaminóndas , 2004
  • Injurias y otros poemas (with illustrations by Beatriz Alcaine ), 2004
  • El asesinato de Oscar Wilde , 2007
  • Prudencia en tiempos de brujerí , 2009
  • Versión del Lazarillo , 2009
  • Bello amigo, atardece , 2010
  • Sigue vivito y coleando , 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Lindo Fuentes, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH San Salvador
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2016