Juan Sánchez Peláez

Juan Sánchez Peláez was born on 25 September 1922 in Altagracia de Orituco, in Guárico State. A student in Chile in the forties, he became close to the Surrealist poets of La Mandrágora. A teacher, journalist and diplomat, he worked in Venezuela, Colombia, France and the United States, lived in Paris in the fifties, then for two years in New York after a stay at the University of Iowa, in 1969. He published seven collections, received the national prize for literature in 1975 and died in Caracas on 20 November 2003.

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• PoetryElena y los elementosJuan Sánchez Peláez · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature