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Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá

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Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá
Born(1917-11-25)25 November 1917
Asunción, Paraguay
Died16 November 2007(2007-11-16) (aged 89)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known forPoet, narrator
Notable work"Relatos del Norte y del Sur" (Tales from the North and the South)
"El ojo del bosque" (The Eye of the Forest)
"Primer recuerdo" (First Memory)
AwardsNational Prize for Literature (1999)

Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá (1917–2007) was a Paraguayan writer, essayist, poet, narrator and literature critic. Doctorate in Laws and Social Sciences by the National University of Asunción in 1943. He earned a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1953.

He received Paraguay's National Prize for Literature in 1999.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1999" [1999 National Prize for Literature]. Última Hora (in Spanish). 16 November 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2022.