Claribel Alegría

NICARAGUA

(1924–2018) Claribel Alegría was born in Nicaragua, but grew up in Santa Ana, El Salvador. She attended George Washington University in Washington, DC. While traveling through Europe with her husband and translator, Darwin “Bud” Flakoll, she became an exile when she spoke out against the Salvadoran military’s role in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. A celebrated poet, novelist, and translator, her books include Luisa in Realityland, Ashes of Izalco, Otredad - Otherness, On the Front Line: Guerrilla Poems of El Salvador, and I Survive, which won the Casa de las Américas prize for poetry. She lived in Managua, Nicaragua at the time of her death. 

She was a member of the Committed Generation.

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