| Manuel Rueda | |
| Nationality: | Dominican |
| Birth Date: | August 27, 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic |
| Death Date: | December 20, 1999 |
| Death Place: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Occupation: | Writer and poet |
Manuel Antonio Rueda González (27 August 1921 in Monte Cristi Province – 20 December 1999 in Santo Domingo) was a Dominican writer and pianist.
Rueda studied at the Liceo Musical at María Luisa Nanita and Oliva Pichardo De Marchena and was later a student of Manuela Jiménez. He continued his education at Rosita Renard's Conservatory in Santiago de Chile and, together with Armando Palacios Bate, undertook a concert tour through South America, after which he finished with the Premio Orrego Carvallo excellent.
When he returned to the Dominican Republic after fourteen years, he became director of the Liceo Musical Pablo Claudio in San Cristóbal and later became a piano professor at the Conservatorio de Santo Domingo. At the Interamericano de Música Festival in 1972, he played with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la República Dominicana George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F .
In addition, Rueda was a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones folklóricas of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. In 1974, he founded the avant-garde literary movement of Pluralism (philosophy) alongside Miguel Vila Luna, who expanded it in architectonics. He was a member of the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua, a member of the Facultad de Ciencias y Artes Musicales of the Universidad de Chile, and was a recipient of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella. Rueda won the Premio Annual de Literatura ("Annual Literature Award") six times, and in 1995 he won the Premio Teatral Tirso de Molina.
Rueda's pupils included Margarita Luna de Espaillat.[1]