Solange Rodriguez

Solange Rodriguez

Born	1976, Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Nationality	Ecuadorian
Education	Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Occupation(s)	Writer and professor
Honours	Premio Joaquín Gallegos Lara (2010)

Solange Rodriguez Pappe (Guayaquil, 1976)^[1]^[2] is an Ecuadorian professor and short-fiction writer.

Biography

Solange studied college at Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, where she obtained a degree in literature, sharing classes with writers as María Fernanda Ampuero, Luis Carlos Mussó, among others. Later on, she did an MA in hispanic literature at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.^[3]

In 2018 she received an honorable mention at the National Literature Competition made by Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana presenting her storybook "La primera vez que vi un fantasma".^[4] The book was published by the Spanish publishing house Candaya, gathering 15 stories including topics such as nostalgia and hopelessness.^[5]

As a teacher, she has developed a long career as a professor of higher education in different universities around the country. In February 2017 she won the prize Premio Matilde Hidalgo as result of 20 years of academic experience in the area of Literary Arts.^[2]^[6]

She published her first book of short stories, Tinta sangre, in 2000 under the publishing house Gato Tuerto.^[7] This work was followed by Dracofilia (2005) and The Place of Apparitions (2007).^[8]

Her book Balas Perdidas won in 2010 the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award for Best Storybook of the Year, awarded by the municipality of Quito,^[9] and the second place in the Pichincha Story Prize.^[10]

Books

Short-story collections

Tinta sangre (2000)^[8]
Dracofilia (2005)^[8]
El lugar de las apariciones (2007)^[8]
Balas perdidas (2010)^[8]
La bondad de los extraños (2014)^[8]
Levitaciones (2017)^[11]
La primera vez que vi un fantasma (2018)

Digital publications

Caja de magia (2013)
Episodio aberrante (2014)^[8]

References

^ "Solange Rodríguez presentará 'Dracofilia' – NOV. 06, 2005 – Libros – Historicos – EL UNIVERSO". www.eluniverso.com. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b "El Telégrafo – Solange Rodríguez Pappe lidia con la gravedad a través de las ficciones". 28 November 2017. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
^ "Los cuentos de Solange | La Revista | EL UNIVERSO". www.larevista.ec (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2019.
^ "Solange Rodríguez: "estoy trabajando más en la oralidad"".
^ "El nuevo mundo fantasmagórico de Solange Rodríguez".
^ "Emprendedores, científicos y centros".
^ "El Telégrafo – Episodio aberrante, publicación virtual o morir en el intento". 3 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Diálogo sobre cuentos de Solange Rodríguez – Cultura – Vida y Estilo | El Universo". 12 October 2014. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "El Municipio anunció a escritores ganadores | El Comercio". 3 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "El Consejo Provincial premiará a tres poetas y tres narradores | El Comercio". 17 August 2018. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "El Telégrafo – Solange Rodríguez Pappe lidia con la gravedad a través de las ficciones". 28 November 2017. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2019.