Alfonso Quijada Urías
Alfonso Quijada Urías (born 8 December 1940), is a Salvadoran poet and an author. Urías has published various poems such as the anthology "De aquí en adelante" (San Salvador), in conjunction with the poets José Roberto Cea, Manlio Argueta, Tirso Canales and Roberto Armijo. Many of his works deal with the effects of war and the realities of urban life in Central America. Biography. Urías was born in Quezaltepeque, in the La Libertad Department of El Salvador. In 1962, he won the second prize in the III Certamen Cultural de la Asociación de Estudiantes de Humanidades de  la Universidad de El Salvador. In 1963, he won the third prize from the Juegos Florales de Zacatecoluca. In 1967, he won the first prize for poetry at the Juegos Florales de Quetzaltenango in Guatemala. In 1971 he won first prize at the Bienal de Poesía Latinoamericana in Panama. In 1981, he moved to Nicaragua, and later to Mexico, where he worked as a journalist. In 2003, he was awarded the "Premio de Poesía Instituto Cervantes". He now lives in Canada.