Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá (born October 9, 1946) is a Puerto Rican essayist and novelist.
Biography
Rodríguez Juliá was born in
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951. The district today is composed of various '' barrios'' (these are the primary legal divi ...
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[Biografía de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá]
, retrieved 2014-05-31 In 1974, he published the first of his eight novels, ''La renuncia del héroe Baltasar''. In 1986 he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship for Literature. Since 1999 he has been a member of the
Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española
The Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española (Spanish for ''Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language'') is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Puerto Rico.
It was founded in San Juan on Januar ...
. In June 2011, he lectured at the
University of Guadalajara
The University of Guadalajara ( es, Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The university has several high schools as well as graduate and undergraduate campuses, which are distr ...
's "Julio Cortázar" Center for the Study of American Literature. In April 2012 he gave the Raimundo Lira Lecture at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
.
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Bibliography
* ''La renuncia del héroe Baltasar'' (1974) (published in English as ''The Renuciation'' in 1997 by Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an American independent book publisher in New York City. Known as 4W8W or Four Walls, the company was notable for its dual commitment to progressive politics and adventurous, edgy literary fiction.
History
Four W ...
, Andrew Hurley, translator)
* ''Las tribulaciones de Jonás'' (1981)
* ''El entierro de Cortijo'' (1982–1983) (published in a bilingual English-Spanish edition as ''Cortijo's Wake'' in 2004 by Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 D ...
, Juan Flores, translator)
* ''Una noche con Iris Chacón'' (1986)
* ''Álbum Familiar''
* ''Campeche o los diablejos de la melancolía'' (1986)
* ''La noche oscura del niño Avilés'' (1984)
* ''Álbum de Puertorriqueños la sagrada familia'' (1988)
* ''Camino de Yyaloide'' (1994)
* ''Sol de media noche'' (1995)
* ''Peloteros'' (1996)
* ''Cartagena'' (1997)
* ''San Juan: Ciudad Soñada'' (published in English as ''San Juan: Memoir of a City'' in 2007 by University of Wisconsin Press
The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and p ...
, Peter Grandbois, editor; Antonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Lit ...
, introduction)
See also
* List of Puerto Rican writers
This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, short story authors, and playwrights. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and long-term residents or immigrants ...
* List of Puerto Ricans
* Puerto Rican literature
Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent. It evolved from the art of oral storytelling. Written works by the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico were originally prohibited and repressed by th ...
References
* Soledad Bianchi, "Dos cronistas 'isleños': Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá y Pedro Lemebel." ''Para romper con el insularismo''. Ed. Efrain Barradas and Rita De Maeseneer. ''Foro Hispanico'' 29.1 (2006): 41-59.
External links
Colección Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá
provided by the Universidad del Turabo
Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to:
Places
* Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Universidad (Madrid)
Football clubs
* Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
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, retrieved 2014-05-31
Biographical details
La narrativa de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá: “Una presencia inquietante”
por Soledad Bianchi
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1946 births
Living people
People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican writers