Poet, essayist, and journalist Roque Dalton grew up in San Salvador, El Salvador. His father was one of the members of the outlaw Dalton brothers and his mother was a registered nurse whose salary supported the family. He studied at the University of Santiago, Chile, and the University of San Salvador. His poetry collections include El Mar/The Sea (1962), El turno del ofendido/The Injured Party’s Turn (1962), La Ventana en el rostro/The Window in My Face (1961), and Taberna y otros lugares/Tavern and Other Places (1969), winner of the Casa de las Américas poetry prize. As a member of a revolutionary army, a communist, and a political exile, Dalton lived in Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Cuba, and Prague, where he worked as a correspondent for The International Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism. Arrested in 1959, 1960, and 1965, he escaped execution multiple times throughout his life. He was ultimately executed on May 10, 1975, just a few days before he would have turned 40 years old. Source