Mario Arroyo
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Mario Arroyo is a Gibraltarian poet and former school teacher. He is the author of Profiles (1994), a series of bilingual meditations on love, loneliness and death. In 2009 he was described by the Spanish newspaper El Pais as 'un perfecto bilingue'.[1] A study commissioned by the prestigious Spanish cultural body el Instituto Cervantes in 2005 remarked that Arroyo's poetry possessed "indudable inspiración en la experiencia vivida y en la realidad local, aunque a diferencia de otros escritores gibraltareños no cae en reductores localismos, sino que es capaz de dar una significación trascendente a sus reflexiones personales."[2] Arroyo is also a noted dancer. In September 2015, Arroyo was awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour for his contribution to the arts.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Constenla, Tereixa (9 March 2009). "Gibraltar (en espanol)". El Pais.
- ^ Yborra Aznar, José Juan. "La frontera estéril: la literatura en español en Gibraltar".
- ^ 48 members of the community presented with Medallions of Honour and Distinction, retrieved 5 May 2017
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