Jan 1, 2010

Accounting | Claribel Alegria

In the following essay, Rodríguez discusses Alegría’s career, her partnership with Darwin J. “Bud” Flakoll, and her support for her homeland.

Claribel Alegría is one of the most respected and prolific writers of Central America. Since the late 1940s she has written more than forty books across many literary genres, including novels, novellas, stories, essays, testimonios(testimonials), children’s stories, and poetry. Her works have been published in more than fourteen languages throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. With Darwin J. “Bud” Flakoll, her husband and partner in writing, Alegría has translated and edited other writers’ work, produced anthologies, and cowritten novels,...