José Luis Rodríguez Pittí
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Jose Luis Rodriguez Pitti (Panamá, 1971) is a contemporary writer, documentary photographer, and computer systems engineer.
Author of short stories, poems and essays, published the books "Crónica de invisibles" (1999) and "Sueños" (1994). Most of his stories and essays were published in literary magazines and newspapers. Some of his stories were selected to be part of the anthologies "Hasta el sol de mañana" (1998), "Panamá cuenta" (2003), "La minificción en Panamá" (2003) and "Sueño compartido" (2005).
In 1994, the Universidad Nacional de Panamá awarded him with the Premio "Darío Herrera" for his book "Sueños". Other literary honors received are Premio Nacional "Signos" 1993 (Panamá), Concurso Nacional de Cuentos "José María Sánchez" 1998 (Panamá), Concurso "Amadís de Gaula" 1999 (Soria, España) and the Concurso "Maga" de Cuento Corto 2001 (Panamá).
Member of the Writers Association of Panama. In 2005 was elected President of the Congreso de Escritoras y Escritores de Centroamérica 2005.
From 1990 to 1995 he traveled extensively in the Panamanian region of Azuero to collect stories and photograph, the body of three photo essays: "Viernes Santo en Pesé", "Azuero", and "Noche de carnaval". In 1994 he won the Premio Canon "Día de la Tierra". Some of his photographs are cover art of books published in Panamá.
Graduated from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in 1994 with a thesis on Neural Network and Computer Vision. Worked as Computer Graphics and Programming Language Professor at the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá and Compiler Design and Systems Analysis at Universidad Santa María la Antigua.
[edit] External links
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Pitti — Information about the author in the database maintained by the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (in Spanish).
- Noticias: literatura en Panamá — Weekly newsletter from the Asociación de Escritores de Panamá (in Spanish).
- la hoja — Radio program about the author (in Spanish).
- Hacia una literatura de las muchas culturas — Essay about the contemporary literature in Panamá (in Spanish).
- A 468 años del primer cuento "panameño" — Essay about the history of the short-story genre in Panamá (in Spanish).
- ZoneZero — Photographic portfolio by the author.
