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	*1994 ''Lo que soñó Sebastián''		*1994 ''Lo que soñó Sebastián''
	*1996 ''Con cinco barajas''		*1996 ''Con cinco barajas''
	*1996 ''El cojo bueno'' (''The Good Cripple'')		*1996 ''El cojo bueno'' (''[[The Good Cripple]]'')
	*1997 ''Que me maten si…''		*1997 ''Que me maten si…''
	*1998 ''Ningún lugar sagrado''		*1998 ''Ningún lugar sagrado''

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{{short description|Guatemalan writer (born 1958)}}
{{Expand Spanish|topic=cult|date=March 2009|Rodrigo Rey Rosa}}
[[File:Rey Rosa, Rodrigo -FILSA 2015 10 26 fRF02.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Rodrigo Rey Rosa]]
''' Rodrigo Rey Rosa ''' (born November 4, 1958) is a Guatemalan writer.

==Biography==
Rey Rosa was born in [[Guatemala City]] in 1958 into a middle-class family. He recalled that in his childhood he traveled extensively with his parents throughout [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]], as well as through [[Europe]]. It wasn't until the age of eighteen that he traveled alone, just after finishing high school, to London, Germany (where he had to work to earn money to continue his travels), and Spain.<ref name=ncsu>[[Jeffrey Gray]]. [http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_07/Gray.pdf Placing the Placeless: a Conversation with Rodrigo Rey Rosa], p. 163–4.</ref>

Upon his return, he lived one further year in Guatemala before leaving (in 1979) because of unrest, and emigrated to New York. There he enrolled at the [[School of Visual Arts]], attracted by its summer writing workshop with [[Paul Bowles]] in [[Tangier]]. Rey Rosa dropped out in 1983.<ref name=ncsu/>

Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; ''The Path Doubles Back'' (by Paul Bowles), ''Dust on her Tongue'', "The Pelcari Project," ''The Beggar's Knife'', ''The African Shore'', and ''Severina''. Along with his longer writings, he has also written a number of short stories that have been printed in college-level text books, such as "Worlds of Fiction, Second edition" By Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson. A few of these short stories include ''The Proof'', and ''The Good Cripple''. In the early 1980s, Rey Rosa went to Morocco and became a literary protege of American expatriate writer [[Paul Bowles]], who later translated several of Rey Rosa's works into English. When Bowles died in 1999, Rey Rosa became an executor of his literary estate.

Rey Rosa's early work is concise and restrained, often evoking extreme situations and emotions in ways that require the reader to infer the characters' motives or emotional reactions. This is true of the short stories in ''The Beggar's Knife'', as well as of novels such as ''The Good Cripple'', ''The African Shore'' and the not-yet-translated ''Que me maten si'' and ''Lo que soñó Sebastián''. The novels written after the auto-fictional ''Human Matter'', published in 2009, are more engaged with the social problems of Guatemala, particularly environmental and Indigenous issues. Rey Rosa announced this shift in emphasis with the publication of ''La cola del dragón'', his only book of non-fiction, in which he criticizes the collaboration of the Guatemalan elite with foreign mining companies and drug cartels, and its complicity with the genocide of Indigenous Mayan people. The themes in Rey Rosa's recent novels are influenced by the work of his sister, the environmentalist Magalí Rey Rosa, and by Rey Rosa's friendships with Indigenous Mayan intellectuals.

==Feature films==
Along with writing novels and short stories, Rey Rosa has created and directed a number of feature films. His first film was "What Sebastian Dreamt," which runs 83 minutes long and was based on his own novel. It premièred at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in Park City, Utah in 2004 and has also been shown at the [[Berlin Film Festival]]. Because of his works in literature and film, Rey Rosa won Guatemala's [[Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature|National Prize in Literature]] named after Miguel Asturias who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967. Refusing to accept the cash prize, Rey Rosa used the money to establish the B'atz' Literature Prize for the best work of literature written in an Indigenous language.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://istmo.denison.edu/n15/noticias/premio1.html#:~:text=Trasfondo%20Hist%C3%B3rico%20del%20Premio%20de,Literatura%20Ind%C3%ADgena%20B'atz'|title=Premio de Literatura Indígena B'ATZ'}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
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*2004 [[Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature]]
*2013 [[Best Foreign Book Prize]], China, for ''Los sordos''.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-8420403182|title = Los sordos|last1 = Rosa|first1 = Rodrigo Rey|year = 2012| publisher=Alfaguara }}</ref>
*2014 [[Best Translated Book Award]], one of two runners-up for ''The African Shore'', translated from the Spanish by [[Jeffrey Gray]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=10932 |title=BTBA 2014: Poetry and Fiction Winners |publisher=Three Percent |author=Chad W. Post |date=April 28, 2014 |access-date=April 28, 2014}}</ref>
*2015 [[Premio José Donoso]], Chile, for his life's work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/rodrigo-rey-rosa-recibe-premio-jose-donoso-2015/|title = Rodrigo Rey Rosa recibe Premio José Donoso 2015 – Prensa Libre| date=27 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Works==
*1986 ''El cuchillo del mendigo'' (''The Beggar's Knife'')
*1991 ''Cárcel de árboles'' (''The Pelicari Project'')
*1992 ''Cárcel de árboles. El salvador de buques''
*1993 ''El salvador de buques''
*1994 ''Lo que soñó Sebastián''
*1996 ''Con cinco barajas''
*1996 ''El cojo bueno'' (''The Good Cripple'')
*1997 ''Que me maten si…''
*1998 ''Ningún lugar sagrado''
*1999 ''La orilla africana'' (''The African Shore'')
*2001 ''Piedras encantadas''
*2001 ''El tren a Travancore''
*2006 ''Caballeriza''
*2007 ''Otro zoo''
*2008 ''Siempre juntos y otros cuentos''
*2009 ''El material humano'' (''Human Matter'')
*2011 ''[[Severina (novella)|Severina]]''
*2012 ''Los sordos''
*2014 ''La cola del dragón: no ficciones''
*2014 ''1986. Cuentos completos''
*2014 ''Otro zoo'' (''Some Other Zoo'')
*2016 ''Tres novelas exóticas''
*2016 ''Fábula asiática'' (''Chaos: A Fable'')
*2018 ''El país de Toó'' (''The Country of Toó'')
*2020 ''Carta de un ateo guatemalteco al Santo Padre''
*2024 ''Metempsicosis''

Rey Rosa's works have been translated into fifteen languages, including English, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Japanese.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Resultados para 'Rodrigo Rey Rosa' > 'Livro' [WorldCat.org] | url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=Rodrigo+Rey+Rosa&fq=dt%3Abks | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130084240/https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_bks&q=Rodrigo+Rey+Rosa&fq=dt:bks | access-date=2025-02-22 | archive-date=2020-11-30}}</ref>

==References==
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*"Worlds of Fiction" Second Edition By: Roberta Rubenstein, Charles R. Larson
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2014-10/some-other-zoo/

==External links==
*[http://www.paulbowles.org/rodrigoreyrosa.html Rodrigo Rey Rosa: Biography and Bibliography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713014801/http://www.paulbowles.org/rodrigoreyrosa.html |date=2018-07-13 }}
*[http://bombmagazine.org/article/7324/rodrigo-rey-rosa Rodrigo Rey Rosa by Francisco Goldman] ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]''
*[https://www.shortstoryproject.com/still-water/ El Agua Quieta (Still Water)] - full English translation at The Short Story Project

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