Manuel Felipe Rugeles
Manuel Felipe Rugeles was a poet, journalist and Venezuelan politician who was born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela in 1903 and died in Caracas in 1959
Career
As a poet he belonged to the so-called Generation of 1918. As a result of criticisms made to the regime of General Juan Vicente Gomez, he was imprisoned in the castle San Carlos of Zulia and later exiled to Colombia in 1929.
In 1936, after the death of Gomez, Rugeles returned to Venezuela. He married the Venezuelan composer Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles and they had one son, the conductor Alfredo Rugeles.[1] Manuel Rugeles served as Secretary of the Venezuelan delegation before the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) in Washington (1948) and was cultural advisor of the Embassy of Venezuela in Buenos Aires. In 1953 he was director of Culture and Arts of the Ministry of Education and director of the National Magazine of Culture (1953–1957). During the last years of his life he founded and directed a children's magazine, Pico-Pico. His book of poems ¡Canta Piruelo! is consecrated as one of the best in Venezuelan children´s literature. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1955.
Bibliography
- Cántaro (1456)
- Oración para clamar por los oprimidos (1939)
- La errante melodía (1942)
- Aldea en la niebla (1944)
- Puerta de cielo (1945)
- Luz de tu presencia (1947)
- Canto an Iberoamérica (1947
- Copias (1947)
- ¡Canta pirulero! (1950)
- Cantos de sur y norte (1954), received the National Literature Prize
- Dorada estación (1961)
See also
References
- ^ "ccm :: Azuaje de Rugeles, Ana Mercedes Azuaje de Rugeles". composers-classical-music.com. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
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- 1948: Mario Briceño Iragorry
- 1949: Carlos Augusto León
- 1950: Santiago Key Ayala
- 1951: Juan Liscano
- 1952: Ramón Díaz Sánchez
- 1953: Félix Armando Núñez
- 1954: Mariano Picón Salas / Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1955: Manuel Felipe Rugeles
- 1956: Miguel Otero Silva
- 1956: Augusto Mijares
- 1957: Juan Beroes
- 1958: Rómulo Gallegos
- 1959: Juan Manuel González
- 1960: José Fabbiani Ruiz
- 1961: José Ramón Medina
- 1962: José Antonio de Armas Chitty
- 1963: Luis Pastori
- 1964: Arturo Croce
- 1965: José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava
- 1966: Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
- 1967: Fernando Paz Castillo
- 1968: Guillermo Meneses
- 1969: Vicente Gerbasi
- 1970: Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
- 1970: Luis Beltrán Guerrero
- 1971: Pablo Rojas Guardia
- 1972: Alfredo Boulton / Salvador Garmendia
- 1973: Caupolicán Ovalles / Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo / Ramón José Velásquez
- 1974: José Ramón Heredia / Pedro Pablo Barnola Duxans / Julio Garmendia
- 1975: Orlando Araujo / Ramón Palomares
- 1976: Antonia Palacios / Juan Sánchez Peláez
- 1976: Guillermo Sucre
- 1977: Ida Gramcko
- 1978: Juan David García Bacca / Luis Alberto Crespo
- 1979: Francisco Pérez Perdomo
- 1980: Adriano González León
- 1981: Miguel Ramón Utrera
- 1982: Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1983: Pascual Venegas Filardo
- 1984: Isaac J Pardo
- 1985: Rafael Cadenas
- 1986: Luz Machado
- 1987: Rafael Ángel Díaz Sosa
- 1988: Oswaldo Trejo
- 1989: Ana Enriqueta Terán
- 1990: Guillermo Morón
- 1991: José Balza
- 1992: Pedro Pablo Paredes
- 1993: Pedro Grases
- 1994: Elizabeth Schön
- 1995: Gustavo Díaz Solís
- 1996: José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
- 1997: Alfredo Silva Estrada
- 1998: Eugenio Montejo
- 1999: Elisa Lerner
- 2000: Gustavo Pereira
- 2001: Luis Britto García
- 2002–03: Carlos Noguera
- 2004: José León Tapia
- 2006: Renato Rodríguez
- 2008–10: William Osuna
- 2011–12: Francisco Massiani
- 2013–14: Laura Antillano
- 2016–18: Gabriel Jiménez Emán
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