Alfonso Rumazo González (

Latacunga Latacunga (; Quechua: Latakunga) is a plateau city of Ecuador, capital of the Cotopaxi Province, south of Quito, near the confluence of the Alaquez and Cutuchi rivers to form the Patate, the headstream of the Pastaza. At the time of census ...

, 1903 –

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, 2002) was an

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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

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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

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, and corresponding member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language. He was a member of

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- 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. He also published more over 30 books in various fields (poetry, fiction, literary criticism, historical essays). He was nominated for the

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for Literature but did not win. He was awarded Ecuador's highest prize

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 the Science category, by the President of Ecuador in 1997.List of recipients of the Eugenio Espejo Prize with Spanish biographies

Selected works

Biographical works * Manuelita Sáenz, la libertadora del Libertador * Bolívar * Gobernantes del Ecuador * O'Leary, edecán del Libertador * Miranda, protolíder de la independencia Americana Literary criticism * Siluetas líricas de poetas ecuatorianos

Awards and recognition

* Orden del Libertador, Gran Cordón, Venezuela * Orden Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela (primera clase) * Orden Andrés Bello, Venezuela (primera clase) * Orden Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuela (primera clase) * Orden José de San Martín, Argentina * Orden Nacional Al Mérito, Ecuador * Orden Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuela (primera clase) * Orden Cecilio Acosta, Venezuela (primera clase) * Orden 27 de noviembre de 1820, Venezuela (primera clase)

References

Ecuadorian male writers 1903 births 2002 deaths Universidad Santa María (Venezuela) alumni {{Ecuador-writer-stub