Arturo Rodríguez Fernández (1948-April 16, 2010) was an author, film critic, and playwright.
Born in Santo Domingo, he attended high school in Spain, and went on to receive a law degree from National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña and from universities in Strasbourg, France and Italy. He has received over thirty national and international literary awards.[1]
Rodríguez Fernández died of a cardiac arrest on April 16, 2010. At the time of his death, he was the Santo Domingo Ministry of Culture's Film Commissioner,[2] produced a daily radio show covering cinema, and worked a journalist for the news magazine Hoy.