Manlio Argueta
EL SALVADOR
(1935– ) Manlio Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador. A student at the University of San Salvador, he helped found the University Literary Circle in 1956. He lived in exile in Costa Rica from 1972 until the end of the Salvadoran Civil War. His works include A Place Called Milagro de la Paz, Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District, Cuzcatlan: Where the Southern Sea Beats, Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes, and One Day of Life, which was banned in El Salvador during the civil war but earned fifth place on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best Latin American novels of the twentieth century. He currently serves as the Director of the National Library of El Salvador.
He was a member of the Committed Generation.
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