(February 6, 1929 - June 14, 2011)
Sambrano Urdaneta was born at the town of Boconó, Trujillo state. Arrives to Caracas during his youth, studying at the National Pedagogical Institute and the Central University of Venezuela, graduating as Doctor of Literature.
In 1978, he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. In 1984 he got an individual number at the Venezuelan Academy of Language, being its president until 2009. He is also an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute of Bogotá. During the second government of Rafael Caldera (1994–1999), he was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC), and in 2003 was a member of the committee in tribute to Andrés Eloy Blanco.
From 2006 was the conductor of the cultural TV program Valores (Values), transmitted by Vale TV; the main theme of this space is the learning of Venezuelan culture in all its dimensions, ans was named in memory of Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri and his TV program Valores Humanos (Human Values).[3] In June, 2008, he proposed to the Venezuelan academy of language the creation of a linguistic and literary research center.[5]
Partial bibliography
- Cecilio Acosta, vida y obra
- Apreciación literaria
- “El Llanero”, un problema de crítica literaria
- Cronología de Andrés Bello
- El epistolario de Andrés Bello
- El Andrés Bello Universal
- Verdades y mentiras sobre Andrés Bello
- Aproximaciones a Bello
- Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela
- Literatura hispanoamericana (in collaboration with Domingo Miliani)
- Del ser y del quehacer de Julio Garmendia
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