José Balza

José Balza was born on 17 December 1939 in the Orinoco delta. He came to Caracas at the age of seventeen and studied psychology at the Central University of Venezuela, where he later became a professor at the School of Letters; he also taught at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. An essayist, he has devoted books to Proust, to Alejandro Otero and to Jesús Soto, and in 1984 hosted the television programme Texto y Figura. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1991 and is a member of the Venezuelan Academy of the Language.

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• NovelPercusiónJosé Balza · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature