Pompeyo del Valle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Honduran poet and journalist
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Place of Birth: Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras
About Pompeyo del Valle
- Pompeyo del Valle (October 26, 1929 — August 23, 2018) was a Honduran poet and journalist.
- De Valle was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 26, 1928.
- Son of Carlos del Valle y Soldevilla (from Peru) and Carmen Moncada Rivera, he was born and raised at his maternal grandmother’s house in the neighborhood La Ronda, close to the Metropolitan Cathedral and the City Hall.
- Del Valle made his debut as a journalist in the pages of political newspapers such as, El chilĂo, Worker’s Voice, Alliance of Democratic Youth, among others.
- After many adventures and misadventures, Del Valle became involved with the drafting of two major national newspapers at the time, El Cronista and El DĂa.
- He became Director of the Journal of the National Autonomous University of Honduras.Simultaneously with his career as a journalist began his career as a poet.
- Del Valle belongs to the literary generation of the 50.Among his works are La Ruta Fulgurante (poetry, 1956), Retrato de un Niño Ausente (prose, 1969), Nostalgia y Belleza del Amor (poetry, 1970) and Ciudad con Dragones (poetry, 1980). Some of his works have been translated into several languages, including English, Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian.
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