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”’Rafael Menjívar Ochoa”’ (born [[August 17]] [[1959]] in [[San Salvador]]) is a [[El Salvador|Salvadoran]] [[writer]], [[novelist]], [[journalist]] and [[translator]].

His father, the economist [[Rafael Menjívar Larín]], was director of [[University of El Salvador]]. When the [[army]] occupied it in [[1972]], during which his father was jailed for a short period, after being exiled in[[Nicaragua]] they were forced out in January of [[1973]] towards [[Costa Rica]]. In [[1976]] they settled in [[Mexico]], where Menjívar Ochoa lived for 23 years. He studied the music and the theatre and English and oublished many books, his first of note being ”Historia del traidor de Nunca Jamás”, a novel written in 1984.
In [[1999]] he settled in El Salvador, where in [[2001]] he became a Coordinator of Letters (Literature director) and founded the ”[[La Casa del Escritor]]” (House of the Writer), a project aimed at providing a formation of young writers, located at the house of [[Salvador Salazar Arrué]]. Despite being now based in El Salvador he has continued to be active in Mexico and has continued to publish books there. His wife is Salvadoran poet [[Krisma Mancía]].

== Published works==
* ”Historia del traidor de Nunca Jamás” (1985), novel
* ”Algunas de las muertes” (1986), poetry
* ”Histoire du Traître de Jamais Plus” (1988), novel
* ”Los años marchitos” (1990) , novel
* ”Terceras personas” (1996), narrative
* ”Los héroes tienen sueño” (1998), novel
* ”Manual del perfecto transa” (1999)
* ”De vez en cuando la muerte” (2002), novel
* ”Trece” (2003), novel
* ”Instructions pour vivre sans peau” (2004), novel.
* ”Un buen espejo” (2005), novel
* ”Tierces personnes” (2005)
* ”Tiempos de locura. El Salvador 1979-1981” (2006), history essay for [[FLACSO]]
* ”Treize” (2006), novel translation
* ”Miroirs” (2006), translation
* ”Cualquier forma de morir” (2006), novel

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