Darío Villanueva

The Most Excellent

Darío Villanueva
The Most Excellent; Darío Villanueva
	Villanueva at the 2011 Valladolid International Film Festival
Born	5 June 1950; Vilalba, Galicia, Spain
Occupation	Literary critic; literary theorist; author; professor; director of the RAE;
Language	Spanish; Galician; English;
Education	University of Santiago de Compostela (Lic.); Autonomous University of Madrid (PhD);
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	María Ermitas Penas Varela (before 1978)
Children	Beatriz (b. 1978); José Francisco (b. 1984)
Signature
Seat D of the Real Academia Española
	Incumbent
	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.

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