Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928,
Barquisimeto – 13 May 2001,
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as 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 ...
) was a notable
Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the
National Prize for Literature A National Prize for Literature ( es, Premio Nacional de Literatura) is a kind of award offered by various countries.
Examples include:
* National Prize for Literature (Argentina)
* National Literary Awards, Burma
* National Prize for Literature ( ...
. In 1989 received the
Juan Rulfo Prize for ''Tan desnuda como una piedra''.
List of works
Novels
* Los pequeños seres (1958)
* Los habitantes (1961)
* Día de ceniza (1963)
* La mala vida (1968)
* Los pies de barro (1972)
* Memorias de Altagracia (1974)
* El capitán Kid (1988)
Novellas
* El parque (1946)
Short story collections
* Cuentos cómicos (1991)
* Doble fondo (1966)
* Difuntos, extraños y volátiles (1970)
* Los escondites (1972)
* El inquieto Anacobero y otros cuentos (1976)
* El brujo hípico y otros relatos (1979)
* Enmiendas y atropellos (1979)
* El único lugar posible (1981)
* Hace mal tiempo afuera (1986)
* La casa del tiempo (1986)
* La gata y la señora (1991)
* La media espada de Amadís (1998)
* No es el espejo (2002)
* El regreso (2004)
* El inquieto Anacobero y otros relatos (2004)
* Entre tías y putas (2008)
Non-fiction
* La novela en Venezuela (1966)
* Crónicas Sádicas (1991)
* La vida buena (1995)
* Anotaciones en cuaderno negro (2003)
*El gran miedo, Vida(s) y escritura(s) (2004)
Books for children
*Galileo en su reino (1994)
*El cuento más viejo del mundo (1997)
*Un pingüino en Maracaibo (1998)
*El sapo y los cocuyos (1998)
*El turpial que vivió dos veces (2000)
*Mi familia de trapo (2002)
*La viuda que se quedó tiesa (2004)
See also
*
Venezuela
*
Venezuelan literature
References
*
Salvador Garmendia biography*
Perfiles: Salvador Garmendia - Lo afirmativo venezolano
External links
* Salvador Garmendia,
A Country, A Decade, Encuentros No. 28, Sep 1998.
Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribb ...
Cultural Center
{{DEFAULTSORT:Garmendia, Salvador
Venezuelan novelists
Venezuelan male writers
Male novelists
Venezuelan screenwriters
1928 births
2001 deaths
People from Barquisimeto
20th-century novelists
20th-century male writers
20th-century screenwriters