Francisco Massiani
Es un novelista, cuentista y dibujante venezolano. De lenguaje claro, transparente, gestual, de alguna forma testimonia la desolación de los jóvenes de su generación. Obtuvo el Premio Municipal de Prosa en 1998. En el 2005 resulta ganador del V Concurso anual de la Fundación para La Cultura Urbana, con su libro de relatos Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer. En 2012 resultó ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura (2010-2012), como reconocimiento a su trayectoria literaria.
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Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
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Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
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Miguel Otero Silva (October 26, 1908 - August 28, 1985), was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. Remaining a figure of great reference in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works were strictly related to the social and political history of Venezuela. Before the establishment of democracy in 1958, he was repeatedly forced into exile; afterwards, he was elected to the Venezuelan Senate.
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Manuel Díaz Rodríguez
Nace en Caracas el 28 de febrero de 1871 y muere en la Ciudad de Nueva York el 24 de agosto de 1927, fue un escritor modernista venezolano.
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Fueron sus padres Juan Díaz Chávez y Dolores Rodríguez, inmigrantes canarios llegados a Caracas en 1842.
Estudió Medicina y viajó a Europa para perfeccionar sus conocimientos científicos. Vivió en París y en Viena, donde se instaló por dos años haciendo desde allí viajes ocasionales a Italia y Constantinopla. Dominó cuatro idiomas y desde su juventud fue un ávido lector, lo que determinó que su inclinación por la literatura se impusiera a la carrera médica.
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