Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928,
Barquisimeto
Barquisimeto (; guc, Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the f ...
– 13 May 2001,
Caracas) was a notable
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
n author, awarded in 1972 with the
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
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
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Venezuelan literature
Venezuelan literature can be traced to pre-Hispanic times with the myths and oral literature that formed the cosmogonic view of the world that indigenous people had. Some of these stories are still known in Venezuela. Like many Latin American count ...
References
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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 Cultural Center
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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