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Sinán Rogelio
(1902—1994)

Rogelio Sinán is the pseudonim of Bernardo Domínguez Alba. ( "The idea was tohave a unique name, thee are hundreds of Dominguez and I wanted to be alone in the phone book.") Sinan was born in the island of Taboga on April 25, 1904*. He traveled to Santiago, Chile to broaden his future as a student at the Pedagogical Institute and his relationship with writers who would later succeed in the Chilean and universal arts. From 1925 to 1930 studies Art at the Universidad La Sapienza in Rome.
In 1929 he publishes his first book of verses called Onda, which was the flagship of the vanguardist movement in Panama. The book is the blosoming of juvenil development within the patters of puer poetry. The author seeks to find the essence of things, sorprising with boldness, without masks that would hide them. In 1944 he publishes Incendio (Fire), a poem originated from a fire that occured nearby his house. A year later, in 1945, Sinan publishes his poem book Semana Santa en la Niebla (Holy Week in the Fog) with which he earned the National Poetry Award. “With a style different from Onda , Semana Santa en la Niebla is the transformation of reality into a crature of art, as authentic or even more authentic than the model, is the adaptation of Jesus christ’s life to natural phenomena."

Panama, 1990, Rogelio Sinan