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

Strasbourg

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, France and Italy. He has received over thirty national and international literary awards.

Rodríguez Fernández died of a cardiac arrest on April 16, 2010. At the time of his death, he was the Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

 Ministry of Culture's Film Commissioner, produced a daily radio show covering cinema, and worked a journalist for the news magazine Hoy

Hoy (newspaper)

Hoy is the second largest Spanish language daily newspaper in the United States, the largest being El Diario La Prensa. Hoy is based in Chicago, Illinois and also distributes a separate issue for Los Angeles, California...

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