Mario Ruben Alvarez
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Biography[edit]
Some of his poems were set to music by various composers. Among them Yvága Potrero Yvate (music by José Magno Soler), Che sy rovetâme (music by Ángel Benítez), Ko´ê rekávo (music by Joaquín Villalba) and others.
He selected the works of Carlos Federico Abente included in the anthology titled Ñemitÿ (2009). The Uruguayan writer Julio Brum translated his poem From Him The Secret of Yerba Mate as Ka'a omoñemíva (2017).
In April 2017 he offered conferences at the Santo Domingo International Book Fair, Dominican Republic.
In May 2017 he spoke about the use of Guarani in the works of Augusto Roa Bastos at the Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba.
He won the young poetry contests of the Institute of Hispanic Culture, of Asunción, in 1977 and 1979.
He is a member of the Society of Writers of Paraguay, the PEN Club Paraguay, the Union of Journalists of Paraguay and the Guaraní Language Academy.
He is the author of The Voices of Memory: Stories of Paraguayan Popular Songs , a work published in ten volumes between 2003 and 2009. He has also published biographies on Carlos Miguel Jiménez, Carlos Federico Abente and The Larramendia Brothers.[1]
Works[edit]
The best of Paraguayan folklore (Editorial El Lector, 2002)
The voices of memory: stories of Paraguayan popular songs (ten volumes, between 2003 and 2009)
The perpetual journey of the Larramendia brothers (2013, Servilibro)
Carlos Miguel Jiménez, the poet of the dreamed homeland (2014, Servilibro)
Carlos Federico Abente, sower of poetry (2014, Servilibro)
References[edit]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mario Rubén Álvarez". Sociedad de Escritores del Paraguay. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ↑ "Mario Rubén Álvarez". Sociedad de Escritores del Paraguay. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ↑ "La Academia de la Lengua Guaraní ya tiene a sus primeros 15 integrantes". Última Hora. 6 October 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
