Author · Venezuela
Juan Liscano
Died in 2001
Juan Liscano was born in Caracas on 7 July 1915 and studied in Europe, in Belgium, Switzerland and then France. Back in his country, he headed the National Folklore Research Service from 1946 to 1948 and in February 1948, at the Nuevo Circo of Caracas, organised the first Fiesta de la Tradición. He received the national prize for literature in 1951; opposed to the military dictatorship, he then lived in exile in France. He founded the journal Zona Franca in 1964, presided over Monte Ávila Editores from 1979 to 1984 and died in Caracas in February 2001.
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- PoetryCármenesJuan Liscano · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature