Juan Liscano
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Born | Juan Liscano Velutini 7 July 1915 |
Died | 17 February 2001 | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | poet, folklorist, writer, critic |
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Juan Liscano Velutini (7 July 1915 – 17 February 2001) was a Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic. He was director of Monte Ávila Editores. Major examples of his poetic work are: Nuevo mundo Orinoco (1959), Cármenes (1966) and Fundaciones (1981). Also wrote: Panorama de la literatura venezolana actual (1973) Espiritualidad y literatura: una relación tormentosa (1976), Los fuegos apagados (1990) and El origen sigue siendo (1991). In 1990, Liscano published a personal Anthology, a route for his poetic trajectory. He won the Venezuelan National Prize for Literature in 1951.