Ramón Palomares

Ramón Palomares was born on 7 May 1935 in Escuque, in the state of Trujillo. A primary-school teacher qualified in 1952, then a teacher of Spanish and literature trained at the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas, he was part of the Sardio group and then, in 1963, of the El Techo de la Ballena movement. Settled in Mérida, he taught for many years at the University of the Andes, until his retirement as a full professor. He received the national prize for literature in the seventies and, in 2006, the Víctor Valera Mora international prize. He died in Mérida on 4 March 2016.

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• PoetryAdiós a EscuqueRamón Palomares · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature