Pompeyo del Valle

In 1935 he began his elementary studies at the Boys School Francisco Morazán. In 1940 he feels an immense attraction for literature. The film industry helps him endure the hostile reality that anguish him. He reads relentlessly. He attended the National School of Fine Arts. Here he meets David Moya Posas, who will be his fellow literary generation (the 50). In 1944 his mother died at an early age, this event is extremely painful and difficult to the poet Del Valle. Whitman, Neruda, Hikmet, Maples Arce and Spanish poets of the generation of 27 (after many efforts and failures) would help him endure the pain of losing his mother and to find his voice. In 1948 Moya Posas introduces him to Armando Zelaya, Adolfo Alemán and Oscar Acosta, all of them will belong to the literary generation of the 50.

In 1950 Del Valle, lives about two years the Guatemalan revolutionary experience. In 1956 he published his first book (La Ruta Fulgurante)[4] under the pseudonym of Adán Marino. In May 1954 the great strike of the banana workers took place on the north coast of Honduras, Del valle was there, writing in verse and prose, next to the "wretched of the earth".

In 1957 he travelled to USSR, during the VI World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship among People held in Moscow from July 28 to August 11. Here he interviewed with the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, one of his favorite writers.[5]

In 1960 he worked as head of the Public Library Camilo Cienfuegos, founded and supported by the Embassy of Cuba in Honduras. He travelled to Havana, where he met the poet Nicolás Guillén; Guillén dedicated an edition of his literary page in the newspaper Hoy to Del Valle. On August 9, Del Valle gave a lecture on “Poetry and the way of life” in the Auditorium of the Cuban National Printing House.

On October 31, 1962 the political police broke into his home as a part of the repressive action of the government of Villeda Morales as a result of the US blockade against the island. In those days he wrote and published his poetry collection El Fugitivo. Lives and works in his own moving underground. Discloses a manifesto addressed to students and young writers.

In 1963 the Honduran police arrested him, forcing him into exile in Mexico and Europe until 1970 when he was repatriated.[1]

In 2005 he participated in the Poetics Ibero-American Summit held in Salamanca, Spain, organized by the foundation Salamanca City of Culture, from the 6 to 8 October.