Guillermo Meneses (
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
, 15 December 1911 -
Porlamar
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Nueva Esparta
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The state is located off the ...
, 29 December 1978) was a Venezuelan writer, playwright, and journalist. He was the author of ''La Balandra 'Isabel' llegó esta tarde'' and ''Campeones'', among other works. His awards and honors include the
Venezuelan National Prize for Literature (1967), the "Order of the city of Caracas", and the "Andrés Bello Order" created by President
Rafael Caldera
Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez ( ; 24 January 1916 – 24 December 2009) was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest se ...
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Bibliography
*La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde (Caracas, 1934)
*Canción de Negros (Caracas, 1934)
*La Nación (Caracas, 1934)
*Tres cuentos Venezolanos (Caracas, 1938)
*El Mestizo José Vargas (Caracas, 1942)
*La Mujer, el As de Oro y La Luna (Caracas, 1948)
*La Mano Junto al Muro (París, 1952)
*Antología del Cuento Venezolano (Caracas, 1955)
*Venezuela (Paris, 1956)
*Hoy en Casa Leyendo (Caracas, 1960)
*Cuento de Venezuela (Caracas, 1960)
*Cable Cifrado (Caracas, 1961)
*Discurso de Orden (Caracas, 1965)
*El Duque (Caracas, 1965, 1970)
*Espejos y Disfraces (Caracas,1967)
*Libro de Caracas (Caracas, 1967)
*Los Muros de Venezuela (Caracas, 1967)
*Diez Cuentos (Caracas, 1968)
*Cinco Novelas (Caracas, 1972)
See also
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
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Venezuelan literature
Venezuelan literature is the literature written by Venezuelans or in Venezuela, ranging from Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, indigenous Pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic myths to Oral literature, oral or written works in Spanish language, Spanish or oth ...
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List of Venezuelan writers
This is a list in alphabetical order of Venezuelan literary figures and their most representative works, including poets, novelists, historians, essayists, and scholars.
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*Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (1921–1990) historian, author of "El osario de ...
References
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Guillermo Meneses biography
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1911 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Venezuelan historians
20th-century Venezuelan novelists
Venezuelan male novelists
Writers from Caracas
Central University of Venezuela alumni
20th-century Venezuelan male writers
Generation of 1928