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 29 March 2024.]

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