Salvador Garmendia
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| Born |
11 June 1928 Barquisimeto, Lara state, Venezuela |
| Died |
13 May 2001 (aged 72) Caracas |
| Occupation | novelist, writer |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Notable work(s) | Los Pequeños Seres |
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Salvador Garmendia Graterón (11 June 1928, Barquisimeto – 13 May 2001, Caracas) was a notable Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the National Prize for Literature.
Were his parents Ezequiel Garmendia and Dolores Graterón. He graduated High school in Barquisimeto, and from then on he was largely self-educated as he was unable to continue formal education due to economic difficulties. An integral part of his formation was due to contracting tuberculosis and hence being bed-ridden for three years convalescing.
His literary initiation was bound to the group Sardio magazine and to the well-known Techo de la ballena. With Los pequeños seres (1958), his first novel, Garmedia showed his remarkable dowries of observation and his interest by the routine existence of the inhabitants of the urban centres and of the alienation that suffer in their work and with their relatives. In 1959, he received the Municipal Prize of Prose for this novel. In 1989 received the Juan Rulfo Prize for the tale 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 vida buena (1994)
- 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)
- 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
References
- (Spanish) Salvador Garmendia biography
- (Spanish) 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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