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 poet group Generación de 1918. Having published in the journal Excelsior, its editor he was, articles critical of the regime of the dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, he was arrested and sat in the fortress of San Carlos del Zulia in custody.

In 1929 he emigrated to Colombia. In Bogota, he became secretary of the founder of the journal El Tiempo and later President of Colombia Eduardo Santos. After Gomez's death in 1936, he returned to Venezuela. He held several political functions - including as a deputy of the State of Táchira and director of the National Press Office - stop and was director of the magazines El Agricultor Venezolano and Crítica.

In 1948 he was secretary of the Venezuelan delegation to 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 ( to 1957 ) Director of the Revista Nacional de Cultura and the magazine he founded for children Pico Pico. In 1954 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature.

Works

Poetry

  • Cántaro (1937 )
  • Oración para clamar por los oprimidos (1939 )
  • La errante melodía (1942 )
  • Aldea de 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 estonia (1961 )
  • Plenitud (1966 )

Essays

  • Poetas de América Cantan a Bolívar (1951 )
  • Lo popular y lo Folclórico en la tachina (1952 )
  • Sentido de la patria emocional (1953 )
  • Venezuelan
  • Poetry
  • Cultural Attaché
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1959
  • Man
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