Guillermo Sucre
Guillermo Sucre Figarella (15 May 1933 – 22 July 2021[1]), was a Venezuelan poet and literary critic born in Tumeremo in the state of Bolivar. He was also a member of the Sucre family like his uncle Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre and his older brothers General Juan Manuel Sucre Figarella, and Senator Leopoldo Sucre Figarella.
Literary critic and academic
He translated into Spanish the works of André Breton, Saint-John Perse, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens.
In 1957 he founded the literary journal Sardío and an associated literary group. He began teaching at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in that same year. From 1968 till 1975 he lived in the United States, where he lectured at the University of Pittsburgh and became a member of Pitt's Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Upon his return to Venezuela he taught at the Universidad Simón Bolívar and became literary director of the publishing house Monte Ávila Editores.
He won the National Prize for Literature in 1976 for his essay La máscara, la transparencia.
Notable works
- Borges, el poeta (1967)
- La máscara, la transparencia (1975)
- Mientras suceden los días (1961)
- La mirada (1970)
- En el verano cada palabra respira en el verano (1976)
- Serpiente breve (1977)
- La vastedad (1990)
References
- ^ Falleció el poeta y ensayista Guillermo Sucre (in Spanish)
- Balderston, Daniel, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, p. 553
- http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_961532585/Guillermo_Sucre.html (Archived 2009-11-01)
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- 1948: Mario Briceño Iragorry
- 1949: Carlos Augusto León
- 1950: Santiago Key Ayala
- 1951: Juan Liscano
- 1952: Ramón Díaz Sánchez
- 1953: Félix Armando Núñez
- 1954: Mariano Picón Salas / Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1955: Manuel Felipe Rugeles
- 1956: Miguel Otero Silva
- 1956: Augusto Mijares
- 1957: Juan Beroes
- 1958: Rómulo Gallegos
- 1959: Juan Manuel González
- 1960: José Fabbiani Ruiz
- 1961: José Ramón Medina
- 1962: José Antonio de Armas Chitty
- 1963: Luis Pastori
- 1964: Arturo Croce
- 1965: José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava
- 1966: Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
- 1967: Fernando Paz Castillo
- 1968: Guillermo Meneses
- 1969: Vicente Gerbasi
- 1970: Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
- 1970: Luis Beltrán Guerrero
- 1971: Pablo Rojas Guardia
- 1972: Alfredo Boulton / Salvador Garmendia
- 1973: Caupolicán Ovalles / Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo / Ramón José Velásquez
- 1974: José Ramón Heredia / Pedro Pablo Barnola Duxans / Julio Garmendia
- 1975: Orlando Araujo / Ramón Palomares
- 1976: Antonia Palacios / Juan Sánchez Peláez
- 1976: Guillermo Sucre
- 1977: Ida Gramcko
- 1978: Juan David García Bacca / Luis Alberto Crespo
- 1979: Francisco Pérez Perdomo
- 1980: Adriano González León
- 1981: Miguel Ramón Utrera
- 1982: Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1983: Pascual Venegas Filardo
- 1984: Isaac J Pardo
- 1985: Rafael Cadenas
- 1986: Luz Machado
- 1987: Rafael Ángel Díaz Sosa
- 1988: Oswaldo Trejo
- 1989: Ana Enriqueta Terán
- 1990: Guillermo Morón
- 1991: José Balza
- 1992: Pedro Pablo Paredes
- 1993: Pedro Grases
- 1994: Elizabeth Schön
- 1995: Gustavo Díaz Solís
- 1996: José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
- 1997: Alfredo Silva Estrada
- 1998: Eugenio Montejo
- 1999: Elisa Lerner
- 2000: Gustavo Pereira
- 2001: Luis Britto García
- 2002–03: Carlos Noguera
- 2004: José León Tapia
- 2006: Renato Rodríguez
- 2008–10: William Osuna
- 2011–12: Francisco Massiani
- 2013–14: Laura Antillano
- 2016–18: Gabriel Jiménez Emán