Renato Prada Oropeza
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| Born | Renato Prada Oropeza October 17, 1937 Potosí, Bolivia |
| Died | September 9, 2011 (aged 73) Puebla, Puebla, Mexico |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, literary critics, professor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Mexico |
| Education | Doctorate in Linguistics |
| Period | 1969-2011 |
| Genre | novel, short story, poetry |
| Literary movement | Post-Modernism |
| Notable works | Los fundadores del alba |
| Children | Ingmar, , Ixchel |
Renato Prada Oropeza (born October 17, 1937, Potosí, Bolivia- September 9, 2011, Puebla, Mexico) was a Bolivian and Mexican scientist-literary researcher and writer, author of novels, short stories and poetry books, hermeneutics, semiotics and literary theory. Many of his literary works have been translated into several languages. He is one of the most distinguished semioticians in Mexico and Latin America.
He was born in Bolivia in 1937. In 1976, due to the dictatorship in Bolivia, he moved to Mexico, where in 1983 he became a citizen. Since 1976, Prada has been a professor at the Autonomous University in Xalapa, Mexico and at the Autonomous University of Puebla. He is also an Academician of the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (an analog of the Academy of Sciences in other countries).
He was married to the Mexican art historian Elda Rojas Aldunate. Their children are Ixchel Vanessa that is a designer and theatrical designer; Ingmar, a researcher and professor of Physics and is a Mexican film director.
Died in Puebla, Mexico on September 9, 2011 because of kidney cancer.
He held the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome and a Doctor of Linguistics from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
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