Juan Liscano

Juan Liscano
Juan Liscano in 1994
Born	Juan Liscano Velutini (1915-07-07)7 July 1915 Caracas, Venezuela
Died	17 February 2001(2001-02-17) (aged 85) Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuelan
Occupation(s)	poet, folklorist, writer, critic
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Juan Liscano Velutini (7 July 1915 – 17 February 2001) was a Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic. He was director of Monte Ávila Editores. Major examples of his poetic work are: Nuevo mundo Orinoco (1959), Cármenes (1966) and Fundaciones (1981). Also wrote: Panorama de la literatura venezolana actual (1973) Espiritualidad y literatura: una relación tormentosa (1976), Los fuegos apagados (1990) and El origen sigue siendo (1991). In 1990, Liscano published a personal Anthology, a route for his poetic trajectory. He won the Venezuelan National Prize for Literature in 1951.

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