Salvador Garmendia

Venezuelan writer

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Salvador Garmendia

Born	Salvador Garmendia Graterón (1928-06-11)11 June 1928 Barquisimeto, Lara state, Venezuela
Died	13 May 2001(2001-05-13) (aged 72) Caracas
Occupation	novelist, writer
Nationality	Venezuelan
Notable works	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. 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); translated to English by Jeremy Munday in 1996
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)
Emmiendas y atropellos (1979)
El único lugar possible (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)

References

(in Spanish) Salvador Garmendia biography
(in 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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