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Julio De La Vega
Julio de la Vega (March 4, 1924 – November 11, 2010) was a Bolivian people, Bolivian poet and writer. He was born in Puerto Suarez, Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Santa Cruz, in 1924. He was a founding member of the Bolivian literary group Gesta Bárbara in its second version in the 1940s. In 1947, he won the Flor Natural Prize at the Juegos Florales Cervantinos in La Paz. In 1966, he published his poetry collection, ''Poemario de exaltaciones'', which won the Premio Franz Tamayo. In 1969, he received "first mention" at the Premio Erich Guttentag for his soon-to-be-published novel ''Matías, el apóstol suplente''. This novel is widely regarded as one of the finest in Bolivian literature. He taught literature at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) from 1971 to 2000. He became a member of the Bolivian Academy of Language in 1976. In 2004, he received the Pablo Neruda Medal in Chile. In 2005, he obtained the National Culture Prize (Premio Nacional de Cultura) of Boliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivian People
Bolivians ( es, Bolivianos) are people identified with the country of Bolivia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Bolivians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Bolivian. Bolivia is, as its neighboring countries, a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of indigenous and Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Bolivians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Bolivia. Aside from the indigenous populations, Bolivians trace their ancestry to the Old World, primarily Europe and Africa, ever since the Spanish conquest of South America and founding of first Spanish settlements in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Modern Bolivian population, estimated at 11 million is formally broken down into Amerindians (prima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
