Salvador Garmendia

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Salvador Garmendia

Born	June 11, 1928 Barquisimeto, Lara state, Venezuela
Died	May 13, 2001 Caracas, Venezuela

Salvador Garmendia (1928-2001) was a notable Venezuelan author, was born in Barquisimeto, Lara state, June 11, 1928, they were his parents Ezequiel Garmendia and Dolores Graterón, in that city he graduates in High school, ahead his intellectual formation will be self-taught, by the economic difficulties that move away him of the formal education, a part of his formation comes from a tuberculosis that leaves him in bed by 3 years.

His literary initiation was bound to the group of the Sardio magazine and to the well-known Techo de la ballena. With Los pequeños seres (1958), his first novel, showed his remarkable dowries of observation and his interest by the routine existence of the inhabitants of the urban centers, of the alienation that suffer in their work and with their relatives, in 1959, obtained the Municipal Prize of Prose by this novel. his fine explorations in the maladjustment and the failure of the people, later extended to new scopes in novels like: Los habitantes (1961), Día de ceniza (1963), La mala vida (1968), Los pies de barro (1973) and Memorias de Altagracia (1973), while progressively, he enriched the realism with the contribution of the fantastic sort in volatile stories like: Doble fondo (1966), Difuntos, extraños y volátiles (1970), Los escondites (1972, National Prize of Literature), El único lugar posible (1981), La gata y la señora (1987) and Cuentos Cómicos (1991), increasing the irony, impregnating a meticulous presentation of the atmospheres and personages. Among other works we can mention: El inquieto Anacobero y otros cuentos (1976), El brujo hípico y otros relatos (1979), Hace mal tiempo afuera (1986) and El capitán Kid (1989), he obtained in 1989 the Juan Rulfo Prize by: Tan desnuda como una piedra.