Juan Manuel Rodríguez López (born in
Bilbao
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in 1945) is a
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-born, naturalized
Ecuador
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ian author and professor. He holds a licenciate/BA degree in philosophy and a doctorate in literature from
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
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History
The university opened in the fall of 1946, with Carlo ...
(PUCE). He was a professor at
Universidad Central del Ecuador
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and Universidad Católica, as well as a founding professor of
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first li ...
, where he was Dean of the College of Communication and Contemporary Arts.
He has published novels and short-story collections in Ecuador, Spain and Mexico, as well as various academic and reference books, including essays and literary criticism. He has also been a columnist and editorial writer for the newspaper La Hora and the magazine ''Chasqui'' (CIESPAL).
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Fiction
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Awards
* Second prize, Gabriel Miró International Short Story Contest (Alicante, España), for the short story 'Levedad del vino', 1986.
* Finalist,'Novedades y Diana' International Literary Prize (Mexico), with the novel ''El espantapájaros'', 1988.
* Ecuador's National Prize for Literature 'Aurelio Espinosa Pólit' for the short-story collection ''Fricciones'', 1990.
* Second Prize for Art and Literature, Universidad Central del Ecuador, for the novel ''El espantapájaros'', 1991.
* Finalist,'Planeta/Joaquín Mortiz' Award (Mexico), with the novel ''La derrota'', 1992 (later published in revised form in 2003 as ''El poder de los vencidos'').
* First Prize for Art and Literature, Universidad Central del Ecuador, for the short-story collection ''El Mar y la Muralla'', 1992.
* Third Prize, IV Biennal Ecuadorian Novel Contest, for the work ''El pulso de la nada'', 1996.
* Doctorado Honoris Causa en Artes ('in artibus') de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), 1998.
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External links
Literaturas.com: entrevista con Juan Manuel Rodríguez
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120321173814/http://cce.org.ec/fileadmin/cce.org.ec/PublicacionesMatriz/Libros/no_CinturonFuego.html Comentario en Cinturón de Fuego
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1945 births
Living people
Writers from Bilbao
Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador alumni
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
Academic staff of the Central University of Ecuador
Academic staff of Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Spanish emigrants to Ecuador
Naturalized citizens of Ecuador
20th-century Ecuadorian male writers
21st-century Ecuadorian male writers