Italo Lopez Vallecillos

Ítalo López Vallecillos (San Salvador, November 15, 1932 - Mexico City, February 9, 1986) was a Salvadoran poet, historian, journalist, and editor.

Biography

He was the creator and guide of the mythical Committed Generation of El Salvador, to which Roque Dalton, Manlio Argueta and Álvaro Menen Desleal also belonged. He was editor of the daily El independiente, which for two decades was attacked by military governments. In the early sixties he created the Editorial Universitaria de El Salvador and the influential magazine La pájara pinta . At the beginning of the 1970s, he founded the Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA), which for almost thirty years made the most important writers of the region known.

Works

• Biography of a sad man (Poetry, Madrid, 1954),
• Images about autumn (San Salvador, 1962)
• Self service en El Salvador (historic message, San Salvador, 1964)
• Gerardo Barrios and his time (historic message, 1965),
• South Burudi (teatro, San Salvador, 1965)
• Pure astonishment (Poesy, San Salvador, 1970)
• Inventory of solitude (Poesy, San Salvador, 1977).