Filoteo Samaniego

Filoteo Samaniego
Filoteo Samaniego Salazar
Born Filoteo Samaniego Salazar
July 11, 1928
Quito, Ecuador
Died February 21, 2013 (2013-02-22) (aged 84)
Quito, Ecuador
Occupation Novelist, Poet, Diplomat, Translator
Language Spanish
Nationality Ecuadorian
Notable awards Premio Eugenio Espejo (2001)

Filoteo Samaniego Salazar (July 11, 1928 - February 21, 2013)[1] was an Ecuadorian novelist, poet, historian, translator, and diplomat. He became a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language in 1984, and was its secretary from 1996-2006.[2] He was awarded Ecuador's most prestigious prize, the Premio Eugenio Espejo, in 2001. Samaniego's diplomatic career began in 1949 as the chief of staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. He served as Ecuador's Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Romania and Egypt; and was a permanent representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI); and held many other academic, national, and international posts in his lifetime.[3] He translated books from French to Spanish,[4] including the Spanish translation of Chronique (1960) (trans. Crónica, 1961) by the French Nobel laureate Saint-John Perse.

Works

Poetry

Novels

Non-fiction

References

  1. Enrique Onffroy de Thoron (vicomte.); Filoteo Samaniego Salazar (1983). América ecuatorial: su historia pintoresca y política, su geografía y sus riquezas naturales, su estado presente y porvenir (in Spanish). Corporación Editora Nacional. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  2. Profesor y diplomático, by Claudio Mena Villamar, March 1, 2013
  3. Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua: FILOTEO SAMANIEGO SALAZAR
  4. "Literatura Ecuatoriana". Literatura Ecuatoriana. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
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