Juan Liscano Velutini (7 July 1915 – 17 February 2001) was a Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic. He was director of
Monte Ávila Editores. Major examples of his poetic work are: ''Nuevo mundo Orinoco'' (1959), ''Cármenes'' (1966) and ''Fundaciones'' (1981). Also wrote: ''Panorama de la literatura venezolana actual'' (1973) ''Espiritualidad y literatura: una relación tormentosa'' (1976), ''Los fuegos apagados'' (1990) and ''El origen sigue siendo'' (1991). In 1990, Liscano published a personal Anthology, a route for his poetic trajectory. He won the Venezuelan
National Prize for Literature in 1951.
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
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Venezuelan literature
Venezuelan literature can be traced to pre-Hispanic times with the myths and oral literature that formed the cosmogonic view of the world that indigenous people had. Some of these stories are still known in Venezuela. Like many Latin American count ...
Writers from Caracas
Venezuelan literary critics
20th-century Venezuelan poets
Venezuelan folklorists
1915 births
2001 deaths
Venezuelan male poets
20th-century male writers
Venezuelan people of Corsican descent
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