AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR
Darwin J. (Bud) Flakoll was born in Wendte, South Dakota, February 20, 1923, and when he was 8 years old, he and his family moved to San Diego, California. He was editor of his high school student newspaper and, while a student at San Diego State College where he majored in history, he worked for "The San Diego Union". He graduated from college in 1942 and was commissioned in the US Navy in that same year and served as an officer aboard destroyers. After the war he attended George Washington University where he received his M.A. in history, and where he met Claribel Alegría. They were married in 1947 and had four children. Bud continued to work in journalism, as a correspondent in Washington, DC, for several West Coast newspapers, then as editor of "The News" in Mexico. He and his family traveled to Chile on a scholarship to edit and translate an anthology of young poets and short story writers: "New Voices of Hispanic America" (Beacon Press, 1962) — the first of many books Bud and Claribel collaborated on during their years together. He also worked in the State Department as a Second Secretary at U.S. Embassies in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from 1958 to 1962. When he resigned, he and his family moved to Paris where he worked as a correspondent for newspapers in Paris and Africa. After he retired in 1966, they moved to Mallorca where he and his wife focused on writing. After the Sandinista victory in 1979, they moved to Nicaragua to write about the Revolution, where he remained until his death in 1995. A book of his short stories, Sea Wolf, was posthumously published in Nicaragua by El Gato Negro Press in a bilingual edition.
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