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Manlio Argueta
Salvadoran writer, critic and novelist
Manlio Argueta (born 24 November ) is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist. Although he is primarily a poet, he is best known in the English speaking world for his novel One Day of Life.[1][2]
Life
He was born in San Miguel, El Salvador on November 24, Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemmed from his childhood imagination.
His writing career began with poetry produced at the age of thirteen.
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He was strongly influenced by the world literature he read as a teenager an cites Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca as his primary influences. He later studied law at the University of El Salvador, but concentrated on his poetic work.
In , although he was relatively unknown at the time, he won first prize at the "Floral Games of San Miguel", sponsored by the Alberto Masferrer Society of Professors. During the sixt