Augusto Rodriguez, poet, storyteller and professor in our branch campus in Guayaquil, participated in the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival & Intl Poets Tent Round Table Forum 2019. The festival, which took place in Qinghai, China,  is attended by the most important poets worldwide.

During the festival, the Salesian professor participated in conversations, readings and presentations of books and forums. Rodriguez's poetry is currently being translated into Chinese and his poems are expected to be published in a book in the future.

Augusto Rodríguez believes it is fundamental that there is a clearer and deeper dialogue between cultures, he shared his literary works with attendees. In addition, he advanced the work that is being done for the XII International Poetry Festival of Guayaquil "Ileana Espinel Cedeño 2019". "This year the guest country is Taiwan from where a delegation of poets will come as main guests, we hope that China is the guest country of 2020", he said.

On another note, Rodriguez is preparing to launch his first novel "El fin de la familia", book that was a finalist in the 2016 Herralde Award, it will be published this year in Madrid, Spain.