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DARIO VILLANUEVA, DIRECTOR OF THE SPANISH ROYAL ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE. SPANISH LANGUAGE DICCTIONARY
Spanish has become its own continent. A land where words set for us the rhythm out our dreams and the nourishment of our hopes. We are the citizens of a universal language. Each of the countries that form this continent has its own lexicon, idioms
and forms of speech, and this immense wealth is revealed in the current edition of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española.
Darío Villanueva Prieto (Villalba, June 5th, 1950) is a Spanish literary critic and theorist, who was elected director of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy) on December 11th, 2014.
He is a professor at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he is a professor of literary theory and comparative literature.
Between 1994 and 2002, he was the dean of the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is member of the International Association of Hispanics, of the Spanish Society of General and Comparative Literature, of which he is currently President, of the Spanish Association of Literature Theory (ASETEL), that he presided over between 1996 and 2001, of the Spanish Society of Semiotics, and of the Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America.
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