Ramón Rocha Monroy
About
Ramón Rocha Monroy is a Bolivian writer. He was born in Cochabamba in 1950. He studied law at Universidad Mayor de San Simón, and did postgraduate studies at UNAM in Mexico City. He has been a journalist, a university professor and a politician, first with Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria and then with Movimiento Al Socialismo. As a writer, he is best known for the 2002 historical novel Potosi 1600 which won the National Novel Award in Bolivia.
