Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (1977- )

Biography

Portrait of Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles by photographer Inírida Gómez-Castro

Portrait of Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles by photographer Inírida Gómez-Castro (February 2013). [via Wikimedia Commons]

Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles was born in Caracas, Venezuela on 16 December 1977. He attended Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, where he earned a BA in Literature in 2003. In 2005, he completed a second BA — Philosophy — at Universidad Central de Venezuela, also in Caracas.

Since 2007, Sánchez Rugeles lives in Madrid, Spain, where he attended Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, earning a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies in 2009. In 2010, he completed a second Master’s Degree — this time in Literary Studies — at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

In 2010, his novel Blue Label/Etiqueta Azul won the Arturo Úslar Pietri Ibero American Prize. Similarly, in 2011 his novel Liubliana won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Bicentennial Prize in Mexico. Liubliana also won the Venezuelan Critic Award in 2012.

As of 2016, he was collaborating with filmmaker Alejandro Bellame to adapt his novel Blue Label into a feature film.

Critical Reception

  • Castellanos, Laura Chirinos. “Aproximación hermenéutica a las migraciones literarias de Transilvania Unplugged y Liubliana.” ARJÉ: revista de postgrado FACE-UC 8.14 (Jan-June 2014): 155-173.
  • Brown, Katie. “Blue Label/Etiqueta Azul de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles: una historia que cruza fronteras.” Anales de literatura hispanoamericana 42 (2013): 15-26.
  • Monroy, Argenis. “La vida derrotada. Parricidio y desarraigo de la violencia urbana en dos novelas venezolanas: Jezabel y Guararé.” Mundo Nuevo: Revista de estudios latinoamericanos 5.12 (May-June 2013): 141-169.
  • Pacheco, Carlos. “Sálvese quien pueda: Jezabel, de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles.” INTI, Revista de literatura hispánica 77 (2013): 137-142.
  • Ruiz, Patricia Valladares. “Desplazamiento y disenso político en la narrativa de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles.” INTI, Revista de literatura hispánica 77 (2013): 115-136.
  • Patricia Valladares-Ruiz. “Narrativas del descalabro: El sujeto migrante en dos novelas de Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez.” MLN 127.2 (2012): 385-403.
  • Barrios, Belkis. “Literatura Venezolana de la primera década del siglo XXI: la narrativa de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles.” Thesis The University of British Columbia. 2011.
  • Caracas, la horrible: Sobre la novela Blue Label / Etiqueta Azul de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles.” Casauslarpietri.org, 12 May 2010. Web.

Interviews, Debates, Interventions

Works

Fiction

Screenplays

  • Blue Label: La película. Dir. Alejandro Bellame. Screenplay with Alejandro Bellame Palacios.

References