Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (28 February 1871 – 24 August 1927),íazRodrí was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, physician, diplomat and politician. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the Hispanic modernismo movement.
Life
He was born in Chacao, Miranda state. He served as director of Higher Education and Fine Arts at the Ministry of Education in 1911, Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1913 and 1914, Senator for the Bolívar state in 1915, Minister of Development in 1916, Minister Plenipotentiary of Venezuela in Italy from 1919 until 1923, Head of Government of the states Nueva Esparta (1925) and Sucre (1926). He became a member of the National Academy of History in 1926. He died in New York City, where he had traveled for treatment of a throat ailment, in 1927.
Bibliography
Sensaciones de Viajes(1896) Confesiones de Psiquis (1897) De mis romerías (1898) Cuentos de Color (1899) Ídolos rotos (1901) Sangre Patricia (1902) Camino de Perfección (1910) Sermones líricos(1918) Peregrina o el Pozo encantado (1922)
See also
Literature of Venezuela
List of Venezuelan writers
List of ministers of foreign affairs of Venezuela
References
Biography at Venezuelatuya.com
Biography of the Mayorship of Chacao
Biography by Pedro Díaz Seijas
1871 births
1927 deaths
People from Miranda (state) Venezuelan people of Spanish descent Venezuelan people of Canarian descent Venezuelan novelists Venezuelan male writers Male novelists Venezuelan journalists Venezuelan diplomats 19th-century Venezuelan physicians Venezuelan Ministers of Foreign Affairs Central University of Venezuela alumni Modernismo Members of the Senate of Venezuela Government ministers of Venezuela Planning ministers of Venezuela