Roque Vallejos (Asunción 1943 - Asunción, 2 April 2006) was a poet, psychiatrist and essayist from Paraguay. Background He was a forensic surgeon in the High Court of Justice. He served as a member and the president of the Academia de la Lengua Paraguaya. Career as a writer He belonged to the so-called 60 generation. This group was concerned with social poetry and politics during Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship (1954-1989). Works Los arcángeles ebrios (The Drunk Archangels), (1964) Poemas del Apocalipsis (Poems from Apocalypse), (1969) Los labios del silencio (Silence Lips), (1986) Tiempo baldío (Vain Time), (1988) External links Roque Vallejos on MundoPoesía (in Spanish) 20th-century Paraguayan poets Paraguayan male poets 1943 births 2006 deaths Paraguayan essayists Male essayists Paraguayan psychiatrists 20th-century essayists 20th-century male writers