Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1884. After abandoning Law studies at the Central University in Caracas, he co-founded the magazine
La Alborada[
Dawn Song] which published many of his essays. His first stories began to be published in Venezuelan periodicals in 1910 and continued to appear into the early 1920s. A few were collected as
Los aventureros[
The Adventurers] in 1913 but the others had to wait until the 1940s and 1950s:
La rebelión y otros cuentos[
The Rebellion and other stories] 1946 (English Translation 1971);
Cuentos venezolanos[
Tales from Venezuela] 1949 and
La doncella(
The Young Girl, a film script), along with the short stories of
El último patriota[
The Last Patriot] 1957. His first novel
El último solar(later
Reinaldo Solar) [
Reinaldo Solar] came…
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Citation: Shaw, Donald Leslie. "Rómulo Gallegos". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12620, accessed 21 November 2024.]
