Guillermo Meneses

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Guillermo Meneses

Born	December 15, 1911 Caracas, Venezuela
Died	December 28, 1978 Porlamar, Nueva Esparta

Guillermo Meneses was born in Caracas, December 15, 1911, and dies in Porlamar, Nueva Esparta, December 29, 1978, venezuelan writer, author of La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde and Campeones, They were his parents Olegario Meneses and Matilde Amitesarove, he attended primary in the Chaves school and the San Pablo institute, and the secondary in the San Ignacio school of Caracas. From very young begins his passion for the literature, like collaborator of the Elite magazine (1930).

In 1934, the Association of Writers of Venezuela publishes his first tale, La Balandra Isabel llegó esta. Doctor in Political Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela (1935), combines his professional activities with the writer career. General solicitor of the Miranda state, prosecutor of the Public Ministry in the Guárico state, judge of first instance in the penitentiary of the Anzoátegui state and relator of the Supreme Court of the Guárico state. As of the decade of the 1940s evolves like collaborator of important newspapers and publications of Venezuela and Latin America, like the National Magazine of Culture (from 1941), El Nacional (from 1945) and the Magazine of America, of Bogotá (1946).

Winner of the competition of tales of the Elite magazine, with Campeones (1939), he also published El mestizo Jose Vargas (1942) and La mujer, el as de oros y la luna (1948). Supernumerary writer of the Ministry of Outer Relations, is named first secretary of the Embassy of Venezuela in Brussels (1953-1957) and soon with the same position in the Embassy of Venezuela in Paris (1957-1959), winner of the Arístides Rojas novel Prize with El falso cuaderno de Narciso Espejo (1952), writes in the Papel literario of El Nacional (from 1954). Director of the Elite magazine, received the Municipal prize of Prose (1963), by his work La misa de Arlequín, director of the magazine of the Municipal Council of Caracas, in Chronic of Caracas (November 1964), writes with the pseudonyms of “Juan de Caracas” and “Jose de las Gradillas”, author of the Libro de Caracas (1967), historian of Caracas from 1965 until his death, was awarded in 1967 with the National Prize of Literature by his work like writer.

Guillermo Meneses was husband of Sofía Ímber, with her, he traveled to Europe like member of the diplomatic service, and was there where he established relation with the group of Venezuelan artists under the name of Los Disidentes.