Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá | |
Birth Date: | 25 November 1917 |
Birth Place: | Asunción, Paraguay |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Known For: | Poet, narrator |
Notable Works: | "Relatos del Norte y del Sur" (Tales from the North and the South) "El ojo del bosque" (The Eye of the Forest) "Primer recuerdo" (First Memory) |
Awards: | National Prize for Literature (1999) |
Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá (1917–2007) was a Paraguayan writer, essayist, poet, narrator and literature critic. Doctorate in Laws and Social Sciences by the National University of Asunción in 1943. He earned a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1953.
He received Paraguay's National Prize for Literature in 1999.[1]