Luciano Durán Böger | |
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Born |
Beni, Bolivia |
November 12, 1904
Died | October 18, 1996 La Paz, Bolivia |
(aged 91)
Occupation | Poet, Novelist |
Nationality | Bolivian |
Luciano Durán Böger (November 12, 1904 - October 18, 1996) was a Bolivian poet, writer and politician. Son of Luciano Duran Pérez and Aurora Böger Rivero, was born in 1904 in Santa Ana, capital of the Yacuma province of the Department of Beni in Bolivia and died in 1996 in the city of La Paz.
Poet and novelist, was also a writer of different literary supplements of Bolivian newspapers. His artistic, political and journalistic work allowed him to give lectures in different countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. Durán Böger was also a self-taught painter. He exhibited his works in La Paz and Potosí (1968 and 1980).
Duran Böger, was representative of the students in the Major University of San Andrés in La Paz and leader of the University Youth; founder and Secretary of Organization of the first Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Workers (Spanish: Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores de Bolivia, CSTB) and the Workers' Party of Bolivia (Spanish: Partido Obrero, PO) in 1937; founder and militant of the Communist Party of Bolivia and APRA in the Peru. He was also the founder of the Moxos Cultural Centre in 1938.
Durán Böger was imprisoned by the Government of Bolivia between 1932 and 1935 due as a University leader, objected publicly to the Chaco War. His position against the war cost him also the expulsion of the University Council and the Bolivian University system.
Due to his political ideology, he was exiled from Bolivia and settled in Peru, Chile, Switzerland, France and Spain.
In 1973, staying in Chile, Durán Böger was arrested as a political prisoner after the coup that overthrew the Government of Salvador Allende, being held in the Nro Camerin. 3 at the national stadium of Chile in the city of Santiago of Chile, where on 9 October 1973, on the occasion of the transfer of detainees Bolivians of the camerin, requested a paper to write a poem of farewell, there being no paper, asked Santiago Cavieres, writer, poet and lawyer Chilean, also held, that will reach you a panuelo.
In 1973, while in Chile, Böger Duran was arrested as a political prisoner after the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende, being held at the National Stadium of Chile in Santiago, where the October 9, 1973, on the occasion of the transfer of detainees Bolivians, asked for a paper to write a farewell poem, there being no paper, asked Santiago Cavieres, writer, poet and Chilean lawyer also detained, he reach his handkerchief in which Duran Boger wrote: