Guillermo Meneses

Infobox Person
name= Guillermo Meneses


caption=
dead=dead
birth_date= birth date|1911|12|15|mf=y
birth_place= Caracas, Venezuela
death_date= death date and age|1978|12|28|1911|12|15|mf=y
death_place= Porlamar, Nueva Esparta

Guillermo Meneses born in Caracas, December 15, 1911, and died in Porlamar, Nueva Esparta, December 29, 1978, Venezuelan writer, playwright,journalist was the author of "La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde" and "Campeones" among many other writings, They were his parents "Olegario Meneses" and "Matilde Amitesarove", he attended primary schoolin the Chaves school and the San Pablo institute, and the high school in San Ignacio de Loyola school of Caracas. His passion for literature was expressed from an early age, collaborating as a writer in Elite magazine since(1930).

In 1934, the Association of Writers of Venezuela publishes his first short story, "La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde". Doctor in Political Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela (1935), he combines his professional activities with his literary endeavors. General solicitor of the Miranda state, prosecutor of the Public Ministry in the Guárico state, judge of first instance in the penitentiary of the Anzoátegui state and relator of the Supreme Court of the Guárico state. In the 1940s 1940s he continues to contribute his writings to important newspapers and publications of Venezuela and Latin America, like the National Magazine of Culture (from 1941), El Nacional (from 1945) and the Magazine of America, of Bogotá (1946). In 1948 following the coup d´etat that toppled democratically elected President Medina Angarita he went into exile in Bogota, Colombia with his family.

Winner of the short story competition of Elite magazine, with "Campeones" (1939), he also published "El mestizo Jose Vargas" (1942) and "La mujer, el as de oros y la luna" (1948). Supernumerary writer of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, he is made first secretary of the Embassy of Venezuela in Brussels (1953-1957) and soon with the same position in the Embassy of Venezuela in Paris (1957-1959), winner of the Arístides Rojas novel Prize with "El falso cuaderno de Narciso Espejo" (1952), writes in the "Papel literario" of El Nacional (from 1954). Director of the Elite magazine, received the Municipal prize of Prose (1963), by his work "La misa de Arlequín", director of the magazine of the Municipal Council of Caracas, in Chronic of Caracas (November 1964), writes with the pseudonyms of “Juan de Caracas” and “Jose de las Gradillas”, author of the "Libro de Caracas" (1967), historian of Caracas from 1965 until his death, he was awarded the Venezuelan National Prize of Literature in1967 .

Guillermo Meneses was married to Sofía Ímber a respected journalist and founder of the museum of contemporary art in Caracas, with her, he traveled to Europe as a member of the diplomatic service, and it was there that he established his relationship with the group of Venezuelan artists under the name of "Los Disidentes"who were living in Paris at that time.

See also

*Venezuela
*Venezuelan literature

References

* [http://www.venezuelatuya.com/biografias/guillermo_meneses.htm Guillermo Meneses biography]