Romulo Gallegos award – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Sun, 16 Aug 2020 12:09:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Romulo Gallegos award – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Political clash mars esteemed Spanish-language literature prize https://onvenezuela.com/political-clash-mars-esteemed-spanish-language-literature-prize/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-clash-mars-esteemed-spanish-language-literature-prize Sun, 16 Aug 2020 12:09:18 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=5071

The Venezuelan literature prize Romulo Gallegos was once one of the most prestigious in Latin America and the Spanish-language world, with writers such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Roberto Bolano among its winners. But ahead of its awarding in November for the first time in five years, a politically polarized debate is raging between Venezuela’s authorities and those opposed to the “dictatorship.” By Guillaume Decamme. Full Text-> TheJakartPost

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