The Dominican Republic is lute. Geen sólo ha perdido ‘n su escritor burgemeester, sino a una figura figura de la historia y la cultura latinoamericana. This Saturday was killed by coronavirus Marcio Veloz Maggiolo at the age of 84.
His sabios and profound articles will sell in the pages of Listín Diario, but will always be maintained as a model of literary quality and vertical thinking, always in charge of the best causes of their countries and the world.
Don Marcio, as he is known to have lived in Villa Francisca, Santo Domingo, in August 1936.
At the moment of his death, he was about to publish by the cell Loqueleo, of Editorial Santillana, his juvenile novel “Janumán”, about the sympathetic story of a lion who came beating and a monolamous Janumán.
At the moment of his death he also works in two short stories for adults. It was a laborious work of the palabra. Lo haciía sin descanso y devoción.
Narrador, poet, essayist, literary critic, archaeologist and anthropologist, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo will teach his primary education at the Mexican School and the secondary school at the Liceo Presidente Trujillo and the Escuela Hostos.
Graduated from Bachelor of Science in the Hostel School (1957); is licensed in Philosophy and Letters by the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (1962), and completed his doctorate in American History at the University of Madrid (1970). It also offers superior periodical studies in Quito, Ecuador.
In addition to the professional tray directory occupied by cargo as the Secretary of State for Culture; Director of the Department of Investigations of the Museum of the Dominican Man; director of the Department of Anthropology and History of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo; Director-Founder of the Department of Cultural Extension of the University, and Director of the Museum of Real Cases. In addition, it operates as an ambassador in Mexico, Peru and Italy.
Account with an amplia literary career. Part of his narrative and scholarly work has been translated into English, Italian, French and German. “It is one of the most prolific and widely defended national and international writers”.
Among his passive bibliography are books by El buen ladrón (1960); Creonte y seis relatos (1961); Intus (1962); The Test (1962); Judas: El buen ladrón (1962); La vida no tiene nombre (1965); Los angeles de hueso (1966); Culture, Theater and Relations in Santo Domingo (1969); April and Adelante (1975); Sobre cultura dominicana (1977); De dónde vino la gente (1978); On Culture and Cultural Policy in the Dominican Republic (1980); La biografía diffusa de Sombra Castañeda (1981); Fine Matter (1990); Ritos de cabaret (1992); El jefe iba descalzo (1993); Trujillo, Villa Francisca and Other Ghosts (1996).
Among the multiple galadones he has received for his creative work, the National Poetry Prize (1961) with Intus; el Premio Nacional de Novela (1962) with El buen ladrón; the Novela National Prize (1981) with The Diffused Sombra Biography; the National Prize of Cuento (1981) with The Fertile Agony of Love; the National Novel Prize (1990) with Fine Matter; the Novela National Award (1992) with Ritos de Cabaret; the National Literature Prize (1996), and the Libro National Fair Prize (1997) with Trujillo, Villa Francisca and other ghosts.