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Filoteo Samaniego

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Filoteo Samaniego
Filoteo Samaniego Salazar
BornFiloteo Samaniego Salazar
July 11, 1928
Quito, Ecuador
DiedFebruary 21, 2013 (2013-02-22) (aged 84)
Quito, Ecuador
OccupationNovelist, Poet, Diplomat, Translator
LanguageSpanish
Notable awardsPremio Eugenio Espejo (2001)

Filoteo Samaniego Salazar (July 11, 1928 - February 21, 2013)[1] was an Ecuadorian novelist, poet, historian, translator, and diplomat. He became a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language in 1984, and was its secretary from 1996–2006.[2] He was awarded Ecuador's most prestigious prize, the Premio Eugenio Espejo, in 2001.[3] Samaniego's diplomatic career began in 1949 as the chief of staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. He served as Ecuador's Ambassador to Austria, Germany, Romania and Egypt; and was a permanent representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI); and held many other academic, national, and international posts in his lifetime.[4] He translated books from French to Spanish,[5] including the Spanish translation of Chronique (1960) (trans. Crónica, 1961) by the French Nobel laureate Saint-John Perse.[6]

Works

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Poetry

  • Agraz (Quito, 1956)
  • Relente (Quito, 1958)
  • Umiña (Quito, 1960)
  • Signos II (Quito, 1966)
  • El cuerpo desnudo de la tierra (Quito, 1973)
  • Los niños sordos (Quito, 1978)
  • Oficios del río (Quito, 1984)
  • Los testimonios (Quito, 1992)
  • La uña de Dios (Quito, 1996)

Novels

  • Sobre sismos y otros miedos (Madrid, 1991)

Non-fiction

  • Columnario quiteño (1972)
  • Ecuador: un mundo verde junto al sol (dos volúmenes, 1979-1980) (English translation: Ecuador: A Fertile Land Blessed by the Sun, 1985, Editions Delroisse)
  • Habla y arte americanos (1984)
  • Consta en las antologías: Lírica ecuatoriana contemporánea (Bogotá, 1979)
  • Poesía viva del Ecuador (Quito, 1990)
  • La palabra perdurable (Quito, 1991).

References

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  1. ^ Enrique Onffroy de Thoron (vicomte.); Filoteo Samaniego Salazar (1983). América ecuatorial: su historia pintoresca y política, su geografía y sus riquezas naturales, su estado presente y porvenir (in Spanish). Corporación Editora Nacional. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  2. ^ Profesor y diplomático Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, by Claudio Mena Villamar, March 1, 2013
  3. ^ "Filoteo Samaniego - Ecuadorian Literature". 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  4. ^ Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua: FILOTEO SAMANIEGO SALAZAR
  5. ^ "Literatura Ecuatoriana". Literatura Ecuatoriana. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  6. ^ "Filoteo Samaniego - Ecuadorian Literature". 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-06.