Darío Villanueva
Darío Villanueva | |
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Villanueva at the 2011 Valladolid International Film Festival | |
| Born | 5 June 1950 Vilalba, Galicia, Spain |
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| Education | |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Spouse |
María Ermitas Penas Varela
(before 1978) |
| Children | Beatriz (b. 1978) José Francisco (b. 1984) |
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| Seat D of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 8 June 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Alonso Zamora Vicente |
| Director of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 8 January 2015 – 10 January 2019 | |
| Preceded by | José Manuel Blecua Perdices |
| Succeeded by | Santiago Muñoz Machado |
Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto (born 5 June 1950) is a Spanish literary theorist and critic. He has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish: Real Academia Española) since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D. Secretary of the Academy from December 2009, he was elected director in 2014, post he held until January 2019.
Villanueva is also a professor of philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he specializes in literary theory and comparative literature.