Hernan Rodriguez Castelo

Quito, June 1, 1933

Ecuadorian literary historian, writer of children's literature, journalist, essayist, art critic, promoter of culture and linguist.

Academic qualifications
Baccalaureatus in Theology and a bachelor's degree and doctorate in theology.University of Comillas, Spain 1965.
Bachelor of Philosophy. Catholic University of Ecuador. (March 7, 1959).
Bachelor of Arts Classics. Catholic University of Ecuador, October 2, 1956.
Diploma for the course "Evolution of scientific thought", Universidad Central del Ecuador, September 14, 1950.

Institutions belonging to the
Ecuadorian Academy of Language since 1971
Royal Spanish Language Academy, Corresponding Member since 1975 National Academy of History, since 1990 Paraguayan Academy of Language. Corresponding Member since 1998 American Academy of the Spanish Language, 2000. Corresponding member since 2000 Royal Spanish Academy of History, Corresponding Member since 2006 Academy of Military History of Ecuador since 2009 House of Ecuadorian Culture "Benjamin Carrion" Ecuadorian Society of Writers (SEE) (Founding) International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

Some distinctions
- Candidate for the 2008 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest recognition to the creative work of writers Spanish and Latin American whose work has contributed significantly to enriching the literary heritage in Spanish.
- Candidate of Ecuador to the Prince of Asturias Award 2007.
- Award "Aurelio Espinosa Polit" granted by the Metropolitan Council of Quito, to distinguish a history of "essayist, linguist, literary critic and art, a character who has all the characteristics of classical humanist", 2003
- Candidate Ecuadorian Juan Rulfo Award, 1993.
- Candidate Ecuadorian Prince of Asturias Award, 1992.
- First Prize in the competition for the 125 years of college "San Gabriel" Daily work with the San Gabriel (1988).
- Diploma of the Centennial of the Ecuadorian Academy for the work accomplished through his column "Language and Style" (1975).
- Single Gold Medal from the International Book Year in Ecuador, for the "decisive contribution to the dissemination of Books and culture" of "Classics Ariel" (1973).
- Award of Merit First Class Education for having completed the publication of the hundred volumes of the Library of Ecuadorian Authors deClásicos Ariel (1973).
- Spanish Decoration of the Order of Civil Merit for his work in defense of the language.(1970).
 
Professional activities
Has initiated the largest study of the history of Ecuadorian literature: General History and Criticism of Literature Ecuador. In this work, the most encouragement that has been proposed in the literature one Ecuadorian and one of the largest in Latin America have emerged as some volumes.
In the field of art and criticism, has recorded the activities of artists over the past 40 years, artists whom he has accompanied and advised, and has compiled two dictionaries in the plastic of the twentieth century Ecuador.
More than a generation has grown with the Ecuadorian Grillito the Cornfield, the ghost of the Green Glasses or Caperucito Blue, works of literature for children that have earned the recognition of the most valuable young readers in the country. Three books for children have been recognized by the "White Ravens" as works of global concern.
During his career he has worked as a teacher activities in the areas of literature, linguistics, journalism, children's literature, art and critical appreciation
Has provided advice in the country and abroad, education, culture and language. It has been a judge of various art competitions and national and international literature.
A date has already written 110 books, among which are his two last edited digitally on their website: A Century of libroshttp :/ / hernanrodriguezcastelo.com/1.xx.htm and King of the mountain, whose first chapters are in líneahttp :/ / hernanrodriguezcastelo.com / libro_rey.htm.
Attached hereto is a list of works, arranged from the most recent occurrence.

Critical appraisals of its creation

"Heman Castelo Rodriguez is currently the most lucid critical talent in Ecuador": Hugo Darquea, Signs of the South. Cuenca, City Hall, 1970.

"The greatest critic of our contemporary": Rodolfo Perez Pimentel: Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador. Volume V. Guayaquil, University of Guayaquil, 1988.

"We read the most and what children read, with so much pleasure as Andersen or Grimm": Hermann Arciniegas, "Little Red Riding Hood; Caperucito Blue." ALA article."The Universe", Guayaquil, July 15, 1977.

"Hernán Castelo Rodriguez has already made two little masterpieces of children's story: CAPERUCIT0 BLUE ... THE EYE OF THE GREEN ghost": Benjamín Carrión. Preface to The History of the ghost of green spectacles. Bogota-Quito, Ballantine Books, 1978.

"His power increased, however, is research" Rumazo Alonso González: "A great work of research." "El Comercio", Quito, July 4, 1991.

"Hernán Castelo Rodriguez is perhaps the best known Ecuadorian writer within and outside the country" Sara Coveña Vanegas, the new narrative Index Ecuador, Quito, National Publishing, 1992, p.526.

"Don Issac J. Don Hernan Rodriguez Barrera and Castelo, creators of our literary history. " Alejandro Carrion, general anthology of poetry in colonial Spanish Ecuador, Quito, Banco de los Andes-Ecuadorian Academy of Language, 1992, P. 12

"In his work, smooth and impassioned prose, dishes and deep connotations philosophical foundation open to the many facets of the complex reality of contemporary world by rough or violent, and that are committed to its future, always beats a substratebeauty, solidarity, and an aspiration to confirm the child a chance to dream, "the substance of hope and promise of the human and the final arrival of a world in which man is truly man, in a peaceful and united society, fully human" . Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, Historical overview of children's literature, Bogota, CERLALC, 1994, P. 139

"The story of the boy who was king ... is dazzling for the management of language, the story itself and all that descriptive feast through which leads us from start to finish is dazzling dramaturgical aim to carry forward that conflicts within a genus where this is not easy. It is dazzling and installed (I say this without fear of being wrong) as one of the fundamental classical literature such speaking, and therefore universal Speech ": Leon Alberto Serret, Cuba. Newsletter, the Ecuadorian Center for Children's Literature, year 4, N. 9 (Quito, 1994).

"For those who do not believe in miracles, here is a first class and the phenomenon Rodriguez Castelo" H. Eduardo Muñoz Borrero, F. S. C., Fellows of the National Academy of History, Quito, 200l. (Reprinted in "Proceedings of the National Academy of History", Volume LXXXI, Ns. 171-172 (2002), p. 136)

"Hernán Castelo Rodriguez could well become the first of the polygraphs of the current time, as they were at the time Julio Tobar Donoso and Aurelio Espinosa Polit, fellow university cares, or Isaac J. Barrera and before the Cuenca Vernaza and Honorato Vásquez Muñoz and Juan Leon Mera and Pablo Herrera. " Patricio Quevedo Teran, The Age of gestation!, "El Comercio", Quito, May 14, 2003

"Did you know that an Ecuadorian has conducted research on all the books have been published worldwide in the twentieth century? And, that such research comes and 8 consecutive years? What about all that work has not received a penny of support from public or private institution, country or the world? Of course I did not know, but true. For 8 years, Hernan Rodriguez Castelo, philosopher, writer, historian and teacher and teacher especially has been dedicated to delivering to Ecuador gigantic works that contribute not only to their cultural heritage but also, and this perhaps is the most prominent and important to define its identity ": Love letters on all things Being Family Magazine No. 178, June 2005.

"This book is a critical chapter in the history of Ecuadorian literature, this monumental work that Rodriguez Castelo volume after volume has been delivering since 1980, when it appeared the Literature of the Audiencia of Quito, the seventeenth century" Villacis Rodrigo Molina, Pedro Moncayo writer "Today", Quito, June 29, 2007.

"I tried to put the book New Dictionary in the broader context of the twentieth century, the other works ... This book is like the landscape of Ecuador, as its cosmic beauty, such as biodiversity, as a cultural mandate obedience to Benjamin Carrion. We are a people of artists, privileged, quality ... Good thing there is a writer and researcher and critic shaft that has dedicated his life to mine the richness of our spiritual ground. " Simon Evans Lamb, The Dictionary of Art Hernan Rodriguez Castelo, Podium Magazine, No. 9-10, Guayaquil, July 2007.

"The book is academic Don Hernan Rodriguez Castelo and comprises two parts, one dedicated to the man who was Olmedo and a writer. In the first Rodriguez Castelo proceeds with greater historical accuracy, supporting each of their comments, some very sharp, in documents of the time, writing one's own biography, the second belongs to the critical qualities shine in it who is considered the greatest historian of our literature and one of the most respected critics ": Just a tribute to Olmedo, Meridian, Guayaquil, 2009.

"... Any effort to further our understanding of the proper, no desire to expand the value of good reading, no work to help spread biographies and examples in our history is as rich as it is an insufficient number of readers, are in more ... Such is the case of the book by that tireless researcher-disseminator of Ecuadorian culture, academia Don Hernan Rodriguez Castelo. To show the greatness of the figure of Ahmed Abad Ecuadorians today, the academic has written a biography that the Ecuadorian Academy published in his collection "Cultural Horizon" "Lamb of Susana Espinosa, The bicentennial and the biography of Francisco Xavier Aguirre Abad, Today, Quito, 2009.

"Hernan Rodriguez C. is one of those sages who has dabbled in different terrains and in all has a great harvest. A more fundamental contributions given to the grammar, art history, history of Ecuadorian literature, theater, cinema, social research is, without doubt, the biggest and best example of literature for children and youth of our country "Francisco Santos Delgado, Hernan Rodriguez Castelo, referent, El Comercio, Quito 2011