Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel (born November 2, 1939, in

Guayaquil Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is ...

) is an

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lawyer, historian, and biographer. He was declared the ''lifetime chronicler of the city of Guayaquil'', and is a member of the National Academy of Ecuadorian History. He was the 2005 recipient of the

Premio Eugenio Espejo The ''Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo'' ("Eugenio Espejo National Award") is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador. Decrees 677 and 699 (of August 1975 and September 1997, respectively) established the prize, which is conferred by the Preside ...

in Literature, awarded to him by President

Alfredo Palacio Luis Alfredo Palacio González (22 January 1939 – 22 May 2025) was an Ecuadorian cardiologist and politician who was the 44th president of Ecuador from 2005 to 2007. He had been the 44th vice president under President Lucio Gutiérrez, unt ...

Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador

Pérez Pimentel is the author of the Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador (''Diccionario biográfico del Ecuador''), which consists of about 1,600 biographies of nationals and foreigners who have been an integral part of Ecuador.

Premio Eugenio Espejo

The Premio Eugenio Espejo (Eugenio Espejo Prize) is the most coveted prize of the nation of Ecuador. It is awarded every two years in the fields of literature, art, culture, science, and to public or private institutions for their work. The list of 2005's winners was entered into the Official Registry Nº 175 on December 28, 2005, and the actual ceremony took place in January 2006. Usually the winners are announced by August 9, to commemorate National Culture Day (Día de la Cultura Nacional), and to celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the

Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (''The House of Ecuadorian Culture'') is a cultural organization founded by Benjamín Carrión on August 9, 1944, during the presidency of Dr Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. It was created to stimulate, to direct a ...

(The House of Ecuadorian Culture). For that year's winners, the president Alfredo Palacio increased the monetary prize of the award from $2000 to $10,000. Besides the award money, the winners received medals and a lifetime stipend. Pérez Pimentel won the prize in the literature category for his lifetime work as a biographer; Theo Constante won in the art category; Rodrigo Cabezas won in the science category; Luis Enrique Fierro won in the cultural activities category; and an award was given to the

Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua The Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua (''Ecuadorian Academy of Language'') is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Ecuador. The Academia was founded on March 4, 1875, in Quito Quito (; ), officially San ...

(The Ecuadorian Academy of Language) for its history of excellence.Gobierno escogió a ganadores del premio Eugenio Espejo
January 7, 2006

Works

* Archivo Biográfico Ecuador * Diccionario biográfico del Ecuador * El Ecuador profundo * Nuestro Guayaquil antiguo * El Ecuador social * Cuentos parasicológicos * Libro de Misterio

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perez Pimentel, Rodolfo 1939 births Living people People from Guayaquil Ecuadorian male writers 20th-century Ecuadorian historians 21st-century Ecuadorian historians