Alfonso Rumazo González

Alfonso Rumazo González
Born 1903
Latacunga, Ecuador
Died 2002 (2003) (aged 99)
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation Writer
Notable works "Manuela Sáenz – La Libertadora del Libertador" (Quito, 1984)

Alfonso Rumazo González (Latacunga, 1903 – Caracas, 2002) was an Ecuadorian writer, historian, essayist and literary critic.

Biography

Alfonso Rumazo González was born in Latacunga, Ecuador in 1903. He lived in Venezuela since 1953, where he was a professor at the School of Humanities at the Central University of Venezuela and the Santa Maria University.

He was an Honorary Professor of the Simon Rodriguez Experimental National University. He was a member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador, corresponding member of the National Academy of History of Venezuela, a member of Ecuadorian Academy of Language, a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and corresponding member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language. He was a member of UNESCO - Division of Human Rights (Specialist).

He was an active writer. He published more than 6,000 articles in Latin American and European journals and magazines.[1] He also published more over 30 books in various fields (poetry, fiction, literary criticism, historical essays). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature but did not win.

He was awarded Ecuador's highest prize Premio Eugenio Espejo, in the Science category, by the President of Ecuador in 1997.[2]

Works

Biographical works

Literary criticism

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ Homenaje a Alfonso Rumazo González
  2. ↑ List of recipients of the Eugenio Espejo Prize with Spanish biographies


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