Luis Sáinz de Medrano

Luis Sáinz de Medrano (born November 28, 1928 in Saragossa , † July 4, 2012 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Romanist , Hispanic and Hispanic American scholar.

life and work

Luis Sáinz de Medrano y Arce received his doctorate in 1969 with the thesis La farsa y licencia de la Reina castiza de don Ramón del Valle Inclán. Estudio critico and, from 1979 to 1993, succeeded Francisco Sánchez Castañer as professor of Spanish-American literature at the Complutense University of Madrid ( Rubén Darío chair ). At the same time he was editor of the Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, founded in 1972 by his predecessor .

Sáinz was an honorary doctor of the University of La Laguna (2005), honorary president of the Asociación Española de Estudios Literarios Hispanoamericanos (2000) and honorary member of the Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua .

Works (selection)

• Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana 1. Hasta siglo XIX incl., Madrid 1976
• (Ed.) Homenaje a Francisco Sánchez-Castan̄er , 2 vols., Madrid 1978–1979 (Anales de literatura Hispanoamericana 6 and 7)
• (Ed. With others) Literatura hispanoamericana. Textos y comentarios , 2 vols., Madrid 1986–1987, 2001
• Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana desde el modernismo , Madrid 1989, 1992
• (Ed.) Las vanguardias tardias en la poesia hispanoamericana. Actas , Rome 1993
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz , Madrid 1995, 1997
• Pablo Neruda. Cinco ensayos , Rome 1996

literature

• Para el amigo sincero. Studi dedicati a Luis Sáinz de Medrano dagli amici iberisti italiani , ed. by Giuseppe Bellini and Emilia Perassi, Rome 1999
• Homenaje a Luis Sáinz de Medrano , ed. by Marina Gálvez Acero, 2 vols., Madrid 1999 (Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana 28)
• El País July 6, 2012
• Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana 41, 2012, pp. 13-14

Web links

• elnuevodiario.com.ni