Manuel Rodríguez Villegas

Manuel Rodríguez or Manuel Rodríguez Villegas (May 27, 1982) is a Mexican writer, lexicographer and architect and creator of the first electronic Nahuatl dictionary and an other Indigenous languages from Mexico. His first novel, The Fruits of Holy Land, published in 2023, is story a of Jewish converts in the rural New Spain.
Personal life
Manuel Rodríguez was born May 27, 1882 in Tequixquiac, Mexico. In 1999 he started as a student of La Salle high school in Pachuca ; he studied architecture at the Instituto Tecnológico de Pachuca in Hidalgo State.
In 2007 he joined the faculty at National Autonomous University of Mexico Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 2016, he finished a postgraduate degree as a UNAM young researcher in city heritage revitalition.
He was a professor in 2018 at the Autonomous University of Mexico State Campus Zumpango, as a reading and writing workshop teacher. Later he was a professor at the Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Hidalgo, teaching urban planning classes.
Works
Linguistics
He edited the first Nahuatl electronic dictionary and wrote many indigenous vocabularies on eletronic system inside Instituto Tecnológico de Pachuca. He made two Nahuatl electronic dictionaries in 2004, on Aulex and Freelang. Manu began writing at Architecture Multimedia Room. These dictionaries have been consulted and used for new works on Nahuatl.
He visited the University of Warsaw for international conference about comprehensive models for research and revitlization about electronic endangered indigenous languages. He participated in several workshops on lexicography in the Nahuatl language.
Novels
After having studied writing, style and Spanish grammar at the Casa Universitaria del Libro from UNAM, in order to prepare his research thesis for a master's degree, he embarked on the world of literary art. When he fell ill with COVID-19 in March 2021, he was quarantined in his own home and wrote his first novel.
He published his first novel at the Madrid book fair in Spain on May 27, 2023, entitled The fruits of Holy Land. A historical novel about the first inhabitants of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in rural areas.
Publications
Linguistics
*2006: First electronic Spanish-Nahuatl dictionary.
Architecture
*2011: Second restoration work of Santiago Apóstol Parish in Tequixquiac.
*2014: Santiago Tequixquiac, pueblo metropolitano.
*2016: La revitalización de los centros históricos la calle 22, el centro histórico de Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.
Novels
*2023: Los frutos de Tierra Santa. ISBN 978-607-29-5835-7 .
*2024: Caminito de los Andes.
*2025: La anciana del viento.

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