Ricardo Rojas
Ricardo Rojas (born September 16, 1882 in San Miguel de Tucumán , Argentina , † July 29, 1957 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer , essayist , educational politician and educator .
From 1926 to 1930 Rojas was rector of the Universidad de Buenos Aires . Today a cultural center at the university is named after him in his honor. Rojas belongs to the so-called Generación del Centenario in Argentina. One of his best known and most discussed works was La restauración nacionalista from 1909. In 1953 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature . His work El santo de la espada about the life of the Argentine independence hero José de San Martín was filmed in 1970 by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson . In 1945 he was awarded the Gran Premio de Honor de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores .
The day of his death was elevated to the Día de la Cultura Nacional by the Argentine government .
Works
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literature
- Luis C. Alen Lascano: Ricardo Rojas y la filosofia de la nacionalidad . Academia de ciencias y artes, Martinez 2007.
- Jorge M. Furt: Lo "gauchesco" en "la literatura argentina" by Ricardo Rojas . Coni, Buenos Aires 1929.
- Juan Rafael: Conversando with Ricardo Rojas a cincuenta años de su muerte . Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires 2007, ISBN 978-987-022572-0 .
- Marta Strassberger: About Indianism. The Ibero-Indian way of life and its design in Ricardo Rojas (Hamburger Romance Studies / B; Vol. 22). IAF, Kellinghusen 1951 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 1949).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ricardo Rojas in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Article about Rojas in Argiropolis magazine (in Spanish)
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SURNAME | Rojas, Ricardo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer, essayist, education politician and educator |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Miguel de Tucuman , Argentina |
DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1957 |
Place of death | Buenos Aires |