Luis Antonio García Morales (August 6, 1929 – July 3, 2015) was a

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poet and a cultural promoter born in

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. In 1984, his book of poems ''El río siempre'' won the prize of the Venezuela's National Council of Culture. García was a member of the Sardio group in 1958, along with writers Guillermo Sucre,

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, Rodolfo Izaguirre and Elisa Lerner. By the end of the 1950s, he traveled to

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, where he settled down for three years, during that time he went across a part of

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and the Middle East. In 1963 he returned to Venezuela, and was designated as editorial chief of the National Culture Magazine, he also worked in the direction of the Radio Nacional de Venezuela, the INCIBA (National Institute for Fine Arts) and the seal Monte Avila Editores. In 1975, he was the founding president of the National Council for Culture (Conac). In the 1980s he hosted ''El Cantar de los Cantares'' in the Cultural Radio Station of

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. For thirteen years, this program was dedicated to poetry. When he died in Caracas on 3 July 2015, as a result of a respiratory collapse, his ashes were scattered into the

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(to which he dedicated a big part of his life's artistic work) located in his hometown.

Books

*''Lo real y la memoria'' (1962) *''El río siempre'' (1983) *''De un sol a otro'' (1997. Caracas Prize for Poetry in 1998)

References

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Biography and part of his work
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Luis García Morales (1929-2015) - Correo del Caroní
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