Rafael Menjívar Ochoa was a Salvadoran writer, novelist, journalist and translator.
Background
His father, the economist Rafael Menjívar Larín, was director of the University of El Salvador. When the army occupied it in 1972, during which his father was jailed for a short period, after being exiled in Nicaragua they were forced out in January 1973 towards Costa Rica.
Career
In 1976 they settled in Mexico, where Menjívar Ochoa lived for 23 years. In 1999 he settled in El Salvador, where in 2001 he became a Coordinator of Letters (Literature director) and founded the Louisiana Casa del Escritor (House of the Writer), a project aimed at providing a formation of young writers, located at the house of Salvador Salazar Arrué. Despite being based in El Salvador he continued to be active in Mexican projects, publishing books there.
His widow is Salvadorean poet Krisma Mancía.