Guillermo Sucre

Born in Tumeremo, Bolívar, in 1933, Venezuelan writer Guillermo Sucre was also an essayist, translator, literary critic, and educator. A cofounder, in 1957, of the literary group Sardio, he taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, the Universidad Simón Bolívar, and the University of Pittsburgh. He was awarded, in 1976, the Premio Nacional de Literatura for his nonfiction volume La máscara, la transparencia (1975). Among his books are En el verano cada palabra respira en el verano (1976), Serpiente breve (1977), and La vastedad (1990). He also wrote Borges, el poeta (1967), a study on the work of the Argentine author of “The Aleph.”