José Ignacio Cabrujas Explained

José Ignacio Cabrujas
Birth Name:José Ignacio Cabruja Lofiego
Birth Date:17 July 1937
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Death Place:Porlamar, Margarita island, Venezuela
Years Active:1961–1995
Occupation:Film director, producer, actor, screenwriter, soap opera's writer
Children:2

José Ignacio Cabrujas Lofiego (July 17, 1937 – October 21, 1995 in Porlamar, Margarita Island) was a Venezuelan playwright, theater director, chronicler, soap opera writer, drama librettist, screenplay writer, radio moderator, humanist and political campaigns designer. He is considered one of the founders and innovators of the modern telenovela genre in Latin America, and is called the "Maestro de las Telenovelas."

Early years

José Ignacio Cabrujas spent his childhood in the Caracas neighborhood of Catia. His parents were José Ramón Cabruja Esteso and Matilde Lofiego of Cabruja. His original name is "Cabruja" so he was changed when the a story emerged during his tenure in the Teatro Universitario (TU). The confusion arises from the renowned journalist Lorenzo Batallán, who published a note on the Cabrujas' performance at TU, adding an "S". Apparently the young actor was pleased and decided to continue using the 'S', so he came to be known as "José Ignacio Cabrujas."

Career

After reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo as a youth, he decided to be a writer. In fact, he could not stop crying and was so involved in his exaltation that he said: "This is what I want to do in life; these letters, these pages have produced in me all this emotion ...it's a miracle; I want to be part of that miracle."[1]

In 1956, thanks to a grant, he began studying law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. After two years of studying law, his second brother, Francisco Cabrujas, was born (Today, he is involved in film and soap opera's scoring). But José Ignacio's sudden entrance in the university theater revealed his true vocation, and so he left the University.

Family

He married three times: to Democracia Lopez (1960-1965), to Eva Ivanyi (who was his costume maker and producer), and the famous Venezuelan singer, musicologist and choral director Isabel Palacios (1985 - 1990). He had 2 sons: Juan Francisco Cabrujas (1961) and Diego Cabrujas (1987). He had one sister, Martha Cabrujas,[2] who is involved in the plastic arts.

Printed and electronic publications about his life and work

Selected filmography

Telenovelas

Notes and References

  1. Book: Catia, tres voces: María Carrasquel Rivas, Enrique Hernández Mujica, José Ignacio Cabrujas . 1227255M . 9789802532100 . 1994 . Fundarte, Alcaldía de Caracas .
  2. Web site: Martha Cabrujas . www.bcv.org.ve . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309061952/http://www.bcv.org.ve/blanksite/c3/colecarte/cabrujas_index.htm . 9 March 2014 . dead.

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