Ramón Rocha Monroy


Ramón Rocha Monroy is a Bolivian writer.

Early life and education

He studied law at Higher University of San Simón in Cochabamba, and did postgraduate studies at National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.

Career

He has been a journalist, a university professor and a politician, first with the Revolutionary Left Movement and then with the Movimiento al Socialismo.
As a writer, he is known for the 2002 historical novel Potosi 1600, which won the National Novel Award in Bolivia.