Ramón Rocha Monroy

Ramón Rocha Monroy (born 1950, Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a Bolivian writer.

Biography
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.