Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer)
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Juan Manuel Rodríguez López (Bilbao, 1945) is an Spanish-born, naturalized Ecuador
ian professor
and author
. He studied with the Jesuits through philosophy (licenciate/BA degree) and later obtained a doctorate in literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). From 1969 to 1972, he was a television producer with Channel 6 in Quito. He has been a professor at Universidad Central and Universidad Católica, as well as founding professor of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he is currently teaches in 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 literary criticism. His most popular works have included El pez perfume, a modern picaresque novel that is frequently read in Ecuadorian high schools, and Fricciones, El Poder de los Vencidos, and Cinturón de Fuego, which were best sellers in Ecuador in 1991, 2003 and 2006/2007, respectively, according to polls taken by the newspaper HOY.
Juan Manuel Rodríguez has been a columnist and editorial writer for the newspaper La Hora and the magazine Chasqui. He has published over forty critical introductions to classic works for Editorial Alba in Madrid and Editorial Libresa in Quito, as well as articles and editorial pieces in the magazines Anaconda and Polémika.
Ecuador
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ian professor
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. He studied with the Jesuits through philosophy (licenciate/BA degree) and later obtained a doctorate in literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). From 1969 to 1972, he was a television producer with Channel 6 in Quito. He has been a professor at Universidad Central and Universidad Católica, as well as founding professor of Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he is currently teaches in 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 literary criticism. His most popular works have included El pez perfume, a modern picaresque novel that is frequently read in Ecuadorian high schools, and Fricciones, El Poder de los Vencidos, and Cinturón de Fuego, which were best sellers in Ecuador in 1991, 2003 and 2006/2007, respectively, according to polls taken by the newspaper HOY.
Juan Manuel Rodríguez has been a columnist and editorial writer for the newspaper La Hora and the magazine Chasqui. He has published over forty critical introductions to classic works for Editorial Alba in Madrid and Editorial Libresa in Quito, as well as articles and editorial pieces in the magazines Anaconda and Polémika.
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.