Manuel Felipe Rugeles

Manuel Felipe Rugeles (born August 30, 1903 in San Cristóbal / Táchira , † November 4, 1959 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan poet and essayist .

Rugeles belonged to the group of poets Generación de 1918 . After publishing critical articles about the regime of the dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez in the magazine Excelsior , of which he was editor-in-chief, he was arrested and imprisoned in the fortress of San Carlos del Zulia .

In 1929 he emigrated to Colombia. In Bogotá he became secretary to the founder of El Tiempo magazine and later Colombian president Eduardo Santos . After Gomez's death in 1936, he returned to Venezuela. There he held various political functions - including as a member of the Táchira State and director of the National Press Office - and was director of the magazines El Agricultor Venezolano and Crítica .

In 1948 he was secretary of the Venezuelan delegation at the Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) in Washington, then cultural attaché at the Venezuelan embassy in Buenos Aires. In 1953 he became director of culture and fine arts at the Venezuelan Ministry of Education. In addition, he was (until 1957) director of the Revista Nacional de Cultura and the children's magazine Pico-Pico, which he founded . In 1954 he received the National Prize for Literature.

Works

Poetry

• Cántaro (1937)
• Oración para clamar por los oprimidos (1939)
• La errante melodía (1942)
• Aldea en la niebla (1944)
• Puerta de cielo (1945)
• Luz de tu presencia (1947)
• Canto a Iberoamérica (1947)
• Memoria de la tierra (1948)
• Copias (1947)
• ¡Canta pirulero! (1950)
• Cantos de sur y norte (1954)
• Dorada estación (1961)
• Plenitud (1966)

Essays

• Poetas de America cantan a Bolívar (1951)
• Lo popular y lo folklórico en la Táchina (1952)
• Sentido emocional de la patria (1953)