Francisco Alarcón Estaba

Francisco de Asís Alarcón Estaba (born January 4, 1950, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan writer, poet and editor. He was born with the name Francisco de Asís Alarcón Estaba, and is the son of Pedro Alarcón Lazarde and Rosario Estaba de Alarcón.

Trajectory
Popularly known as Francisco Alarcón, poet and writer whose years of reading, the beginning in romantic literature, transform him into Rolando or Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, and take him to William Shakespeare, in his opinion, the great interpreter of nature human On that tour, he gives us Chronicles of Caracas, Tales of Gallero, poetry and essays. The intimate world in poems. The poet and writer assumes his commitment as a public intellectual, when faced with the need to understand, to see clearly, he catches the phenomena of the environment and his inner world, and then communicates what is seen and experienced. It is one of the prominent voices of the 80s generation in Venezuela and Latin America. Founder and editor of the Venezuelan digital newspaper, PUBLICACIONES FRANCISCO ALARCÖN in Caracas  dated 2000.

At age of 21, Alarcon completed his academic studies, earning a Doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences. In his Biographical essays Francisco Alarcón see us being work by famous poets and writers. Without a premeditated order their biographies take us to The Generation of the 98, The Generation of 27, and The "Modernism", and continues among others with Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain There is no order precipitated with the grace and depth emerging authors, in his poetry begins with rhymed verses and sonnets with sadness and humor. Then, free verse, and deviations from the Castilian meters, looking abyss, fears and ghosts, Exchange is intended for itself.

Currently, Alarcon devotes himself to intellectual activity, being a regular columnist for printed media, such as: El Nacional, Últimas Noticias, 2001, El Globo, Tal Cual y Abril and electronic media such as Analitica,  NoticieroDigital,  La Historia Paralela (Argentina) and Diario de América (EEUU)

His poems, short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and published in different Latin American media, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, México, Cuba as well as, in EUA, Europe and Australia.

His poetry work is part of "Como Ángeles en llamas. Algunas voces latinoamericanas del Siglo XX".

Américo Martín has described his style as "centauric" or " integralistic'.

Francisco Alarcón has more than fifty published books.

Works

 * Poemas número uno (1968)
 * Cuentos del gallero (1969)
 * Segundos aires ISBN 980-12-0195-9 (2003)
 * Sueños de agua (2003) ISBN 9789803900502.
 * Ven, niña ISBN 980-12-0496-6 (2004)
 * Resplandores hueros I y II (2004)
 * Alucinación (2005)
 * Encuentro ISBN 980-12-1034-6 (2005)
 * Cuéntese, camarada (2006)
 * Ensayos (2005)
 * Chavéz no es un problema teórico (2007) ISBN 9789801227748
 * Obras escogidas (2007)
 * Mujer ISBN 978-980-122926-1 (2008)
 * Da la cara ISBN 978-980-12-2926-1(2008)
 * Prosas fúnebres ISBN 978-980-12-3308-4 (2008)
 * La historia de lo ajeno 978-980-12-2774-8 (2009)
 * Venezuela es tuya y mía también. (2009)
 * A... ISBN 978-980-12-4332-8 (2010)
 * Soledad y otros poemas (2011)
 * Sutilezas Tomo I y II (2012)