Rafael Rodríguez Díaz
Rafael Arturo Rodríguez Díaz (born May 19, 1943 in Santa Ana ) is a Salvadoran poet, essayist, literary critic and university professor.
The son of the writer and poet Rafael Rodríguez Cárcamo attended elementary school and high school at the Liceo San Luis of the Marist Brothers. In 1961 he joined the Societas Jesu in Santa Tecla as a novice and began teaching at the Colegio Centroamericano de Managua . After realizing his lack of a vocation to the priesthood, he left the Order in 1971 and studied philosophy in Ecuador with the help of Ignacio Ellacuría .
On his return he became professor of literature at the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” , where he taught for several years and was known among the students as Don Lito . In 1974 he brought the play Nemaná to the Centro Nacional de Artes (CENAR) . His first literary work was the poem Cuídense del fuego, hermanos (1974), which appeared in 1985 in a volume with a foreword by Ignacio Ellacuría. In 1987 he published his second book Amor medioeval .
A collection of the texts he wrote for Francisco Andrés Escobar's magazine Taller de Letras was published in 1989 under the title Tema salvadoreño . After a congress of Central American writers, anthropologists and intellectuals in Chiapas, his book Indoamérica en Flor was written in 1991 . In 2003 he retired. From 2008 he resumed teaching at the Departamento de Communicación y Cultura of the Universidad Centroamericana .
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| SURNAME | Rodríguez Díaz, Rafael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodríguez Díaz, Rafael Arturo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Salvadoran poet, essayist, literary critic and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Ana (El Salvador) |