Francisco Méndez
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Francisco Méndez was a Guatemalan poet and short-story writer born in Joyabaj
, El Quiché. He published his first poem at the age of eighteen, and moved to the city of Quetzaltenango shortly after. A self-taught writer, he went on to publish numerous volumes of poetry, including the celebrated Nocturnos. He wrote for the Guatemala City newspaper El Imparcial from 1935 until his death, and he is linked to a generation of Guatemalan writers from the 1930's known as the Tepeus. His book of memoirs and short stories, Stories of Joyabaj, was published posthumously http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/bio.php?author=Francisco+M%E9ndez.
Joyabaj
Joyabaj is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. It is located about 50 kilometers from Santa Cruz del Quiché, in the Sierra de Chuacús mountains....
, El Quiché. He published his first poem at the age of eighteen, and moved to the city of Quetzaltenango shortly after. A self-taught writer, he went on to publish numerous volumes of poetry, including the celebrated Nocturnos. He wrote for the Guatemala City newspaper El Imparcial from 1935 until his death, and he is linked to a generation of Guatemalan writers from the 1930's known as the Tepeus. His book of memoirs and short stories, Stories of Joyabaj, was published posthumously http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/bio.php?author=Francisco+M%E9ndez.