Filoteo Samaniego
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| Born | Filoteo Samaniego Salazar July 11, 1928 Quito, Ecuador |
| Died | February 21, 2013 (aged 84) Quito, Ecuador |
| Occupation | Novelist, Poet, Diplomat, Translator |
| Language | Spanish |
| Notable awards | Premio 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Profesor y diplomático Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, by Claudio Mena Villamar, March 1, 2013
- ^ "Filoteo Samaniego - Ecuadorian Literature". 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ^ Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua: FILOTEO SAMANIEGO SALAZAR
- ^ "Literatura Ecuatoriana". Literatura Ecuatoriana. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
- ^ "Filoteo Samaniego - Ecuadorian Literature". 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
