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n writers. * 1948 Mario Briceño Iragorry (''El Regente Heredia o la piedad heroica'') * 1949

Carlos Augusto León Carlos Augusto León Arocha (Caracas, October 20, 1914 – May 13, 1997) was a Venezuelan poet, essayist, historian, politician and scientist. He gained a doctorate degree in physical science and mathematics from the Central University of Ven ...

(''A solas con la vida'') * 1950 Santiago Key Ayala (''Bajo el signo del Avila'') * 1951 Juan Liscano (''Humano destino'') * 1952 Ramón Díaz Sánchez (''Guzmán: elipse de una ambición de poder'') * 1953 Félix Armando Núñez (''El poema de la tarde'') * 1954 Mariano Picón Salas (''Los días de Cipriano Castro'') * 1954

Arturo Uslar Pietri Arturo Uslar Pietri (16 May 1906 in Caracas – 26 February 2001) was a Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, television producer, and politician. Life Born on 16 May 1906 in Caracas, Venezuela, his parents were generalSantos Himiob ...

(''Las nubes'') * 1955 Manuel Felipe Rugeles (''Cantos de sur y norte'') * 1956 Miguel Otero Silva (''Casas Muertas'') * 1956 Augusto Mijares (''La luz y el espejo'') * 1957 Juan Beroes (''Poemas itálicos : materia de eternidad'') * 1958

Rómulo Gallegos Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was ...

(''La doncella'') * 1959 Juan Manuel González (''La heredad junto al viento'') * 1960

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(''A orillas del sueño'') * 1961 José Ramón Medina (''Memorias y elegías'') * 1962 José Antonio de Armas Chitty (''Tucupido, Formación de un Pueblo del Llano'') * 1963 Luis Pastori (''Elegía sin fin'') * 1964 Arturo Croce (''El espacio en el tiempo'') * 1965 José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava (category: poetry. ''Poesía'') * 1966

Alberto Arvelo Torrealba Alberto Arvelo Torrealba (September 3, 1905 – March 28, 1971), was a Venezuelan lawyer, educator and folklorical poet. He was author oFlorentino y El Diablo which was set to music as a duet in the style known as ''contrapunteo''. Legacy A Alb ...

(''Lazo Martí: vigencia en lejanía'') * 1967 Fernando Paz Castillo (''Poesía'') * 1968 Guillermo Meneses (''Espejos y disfraces'') * 1969 Vicente Gerbasi (''Poesía de viajes'') * 1970 Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (''El osario de Dios'') * 1970 Luis Beltrán Guerrero (''El tema de la revolución'') * 1971 Pablo Rojas Guardia (''La voz inacabada'') * 1972 Alfredo Boulton (''Historia de la pintura en Venezuela'') * 1972 Salvador Garmendia (''Los escondites'') * 1973 ** Caupolicán Ovalles (category: poetry. ''Copa de huesos'') ** Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo (''Bolívar: un continente y un destino'') **

Ramón José Velásquez Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (28 November 1916 – 24 June 2014) was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer. He served as the president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. Background and personal life Velásquez was born ...

(prose category, for ''La caída del liberalismo amarillo'' * 1974 José Ramón Heredia (category: poetry. ''Antología poética'') * 1974 Pedro Pablo Barnola Duxans (category: essay. ''Afirmaciones de cultura'') * 1974 Julio Garmendia (lifetime achievement) * 1975 Orlando Araujo (category: essay. ''Contrapunteo de la vida y de la muerte: ensayo sobre la poesía de Alberto Arvelo Torrealba'') * 1975 Ramón Palomares (''Adios Escuque'') * 1976 Antonia Palacios (''El largo día ya seguro'') * 1976 Juan Sánchez Peláez (category: poetry. ''Rasgos comunes'') * 1976 Guillermo Sucre (category: essay. ''La máscara, la transparencia'') * 1977 Ida Gramcko (category: poetry) * 1978 Juan David García Bacca (lifetime achievement) * 1978 Luis Alberto Crespo (category: poetry. ''Costumbre de Sequía'') * 1979 Francisco Pérez Perdomo (lifetime achievement) * 1980 Adriano González León (lifetime achievement) * 1981 Miguel Ramón Utrera * 1982

(''La isla de Robinson'') * 1983 Pascual Venegas Filardo * 1984 Isaac J Pardo (essay: F''uegos bajo el agua'') * 1985 Rafael Cadenas (lifetime achievement) * 1986

Luz Machado Luz Machado (Ciudad Bolívar, February 3, 1916 – August 11, 1999, pseudonym: Ágata Cruz) was a Venezuelan political activist, journalist and poet. She founded the Circle of Venezuelan Writers (''Círculo Escritores de Venezuela'') and was a ...

(lifetime achievement) * 1987 Rafael Ángel Díaz Sosa (lifetime achievement) * 1989 Ana Enriqueta Terán (lifetime achievement) * 1990 Guillermo Morón (lifetime achievement) * 1991 José Balza (lifetime achievement) * 1992 Pedro Pablo Paredes (lifetime achievement) * 1993 Pedro Grases (lifetime achievement) * 1994 Elizabeth Schön (lifetime achievement) * 1998 Eugenio Montejo (lifetime achievement) * 1999 Elisa Lerner (lifetime achievement) * 2000

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(lifetime achievement) * 2001 Luis Britto García (lifetime achievement) * 2003 Carlos Noguera (lifetime achievement) * 2006 Renato Rodríguez (lifetime achievement) * 2008 William Osuna (lifetime achievement) * 2010 Luis Albero Crespo (lifetime achievement) * 2012 Francisco Massiani (lifetime achievement)

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