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Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928, Barquisimeto – 13 May 2001,
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) was a notable Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the
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. 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.
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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