Juan Felipe Toruño

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Juan Felipe Toruño (León, Nicaragua, 1 May 1898 - San Salvador, El Salvador, 31 August 1980) was a Nicaraguan writer.^[1] El silencio (1935) was awarded the prize in Concurso del Libro Americano, Matanzas, Cuba, 1938. The story Chupasangre (1945) won Premio Internacional "Alfonso Hernández Catá" de Cuento in La Habana, Cuba.

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^ World Literature in Spanish: R-Z -2011 - Page 970 0313337705 His writings often blend fiction and history through metaphor, exhibiting concern for social justice and political themes, as in the novel El Silencio (1938; The Silence), which uses the silence following an incestuous relationship and the abandonment of the resulting infant to reflect political repression after the 1936 U.S. occupation of Nicaragua. In the story “Chupasangre” (1945), two American criminals are killed by a chupasangre —a poisonous tree indigenous to the Nicaraguan ...