Santo Domingo. – The outstanding died on Tuesday morning writer, Academic and former Minister of Culture, José Rafael Lantiguaafter facing health complications.
Lantigua dedicated a lifetime to cultural managementbeing the architect of the emblematic today Santo Domingo International Book Fairas well as regional editions, with which the event for letters of letters reaches different parts of the country.
He worked like Minister of Culture Between 2004 and 2008, it was Member of the Dominican Academy of Languageoccupying the chair A, which once belonged to the founder of that organization Monsignor Adolfo Alejandro Nouel, archbishop of Santo Domingo.
In addition, he created and directed for 20 years the literary supplement library in the last minute and daily listing, which became the publication of its type of greater dissemination and reading, by showing for two decades the Dominican literature values and the new and then future voices of national and Latin American letters.
Works
During his extensive career, José Rafael Lantigua wrote more than twenty booksamong them are; The Conjure of Time: Dominican man memories (1994), Domingo Moreno Jiménes, biography of a poet (1976)e Islands in the Sun, Anthology of the Cuban and Dominican story (1998).
Also, The word to be said (2012), A meeting with the commander (2016), Island tremor (2019), Democracy and pandemic. Records (2021)and Delators and Tramoyas: Chronicles with History (2021).
Lantigua obtained several Recognition for your worksuch as the National Test Prize (1977) and the Dominican Academy of Language Award (2003).
His departure leaves a deep emptiness in the field of letters and the culture of the country, but his legacy as writer and cultural manager will continue to present in current and future generations.
