Eduardo Casanova

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Eduardo Casanova Sucre (born December 12, 1939 in Caracas , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan writer , playwright and lawyer .

Life

Eduardo Casanova was born on December 12, 1939 in Caracas, the son of the road construction engineer Poncho Casanova and his wife Carlota Sucre Urbaneja. He grew up in the cities of Tinaquillo, Barquisimeto , Maracay and Ciudad Bolívar . At the end of 1948 he settled in Caracas .

From 1953 he attended the Colegio Santiago de León school founded by Rafael Vegas in Caracas. In the same year he wrote the hymn to the school with music by Antonio Laura and won a competition advertised at the school. His first publications also date from these years, some of which appeared in the school newspaper, others in Hontanar , a magazine founded by young intellectuals in 1956, and in the daily newspaper El Nacional . Casanova studied law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires .

In 1957 he worked as a reporter and editor for the magazine 'Momento' . On December 14, 1961, he married Natalia López Arocha.

After participating in the election campaign of the presidential candidate and writer Arturo Uslar Pietri and after founding the weekly newspaper El Sol , he entered the diplomatic service and went to the Venezuelan embassy in Argentina as secretary. Four years later he was promoted to 1st secretary and sent to the Venezuelan mission in Denmark , the ambassador in office at the time was Vicente Gerbasi , one of the most famous Venezuelan poets and Casanova's friend, about whom he later wrote the biography El viajero, el insomne (2014 ) wrote. Casanova returned to Venezuela in late 1970.

In December 1972 he published his first novel Los caballos de la cólera , which was very popular not only with Venezuelan literary critics, but also throughout the Spanish-speaking world. With his second novel, La agonía del Macho Luna , he won the Premio Barral in 1974 . In the same year he was Political Director and Inspector General of the Government of the Federal District until his return to the diplomatic service. In the same year he founded the Art and Culture Foundation Fundarte in Caracas . From 1975 to 1978 he worked as the Venezuelan ambassador to Denmark. In 1979 he moved to Maracay, made contact with the magazine Umbra (magazine) and founded a cultural center with the director of this paper, the poet Alberto Hernández .

In 1984 he became chairman of Fundarte, assessor of the minister of education and from July director of the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos ( CELARG ), which was converted into the CELARG foundation in 1985, of which he was the first president. In 1989 he became head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' cultural department, and in 1991 he went to the People's Republic of China as ambassador. He retired in 1994.

In the course of his life he published a number of books of various genres and numerous newspaper articles. His works deal, among other things, with politics and the history of Venezuela. His novel La última muerte de Simón el triste , published in 2004, is about the final hours of the national hero Simón Bolívar . From 2001 to 2005 he lived in Mérida (Venezuela), in 2005 he settled in Caraballeda , in the state of Vargas, Venezuela. From 1999 to 2001 he was President of the Venezuelan Writers' Association ( Círculo de Escritores de Venezuela ), then a member of the Advisory Board. and Vice President of the PEN Club in Venezuela. For his narrative work, he received the Premio Guillermo Meneses in 2000 , the Pushkin Medal of the Russian Federation in the same year and the Premio de Dramaturgia awarded on the occasion of Francisco de Miranda's 250th birthday .

Works

  • 1972: Los caballos de la cólera , Roman, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas.
  • 1974: La agonía del Macho Luna , Roman, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas.
  • 1975: La región desapacible , short stories, Ediciones En La Raya, Caracas.
  • 1975: Hacia la noche , Roman, Editorial Planeta, Barcelona, ​​España.
  • 1977: Ideas para un Ministerio de Cultura , Essay, Bording, Copenhague, Dinamarca.
  • 1978: Caracas, dividir para gobernar , Essay, Cruz del Sur, Caracas.
  • 1985: El Arca de Daniel , Roman, Editorial Panapo, Caracas.
  • 1987: Las Bejarano , Comedy, Cruz del Sur, Caracas.
  • 1988: Las alegres campanas de la muerte , Cruz del Sur, Caracas. ISBN 980-6196-00-7
  • 1991: La narrativa latinoamericana, essay, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Caracas. ISBN 980-225-039-2
  • 1991: Las trampas de la luz: Caracas 1986-1990 , poetry, Signo Contemporáneo, Caracas. ISBN 980-07-0367-5
  • 1991: La noche de Abel , Roman, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas. ISBN 980-01-0379-1
  • 1993: Lento laberinto de temor ( Cuarteto en Sol ), Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas. ISBN 980-6354-00-1
  • 1993: Corazón de dinosaurio ( Cuarteto en Sol ), Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas. ISBN 980-6354-02-8
  • 1993: Contra Natura (Cuarteto en Sol) , Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas. ISBN 980-6354-03-6
  • 1993: La muerte del novelista (Cuarteto en Sol) , Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas. ISBN 980-6354-04-4
  • 1994: El señor de la montaña , Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas. ISBN 980-6354-06-0
  • 1998: Los cantos del Libertador , Poetry, Ediciones Giluz, Caracas, Venezuela. ISBN 980-369-031-0
  • 2000: El solo de Saxofón, Círculo de Escritores de Venezuela, Caracas. ISBN 980-383-002-3
  • 2004: En los días de Bolívar , essay, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • 2004: La última muerte de Simón el triste , Roman, Editorial Actum, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • 2014: El viajero, el insomne. Una biografía de Vicente Gerbasi. , Biography, Editorial Equinoccio, Caracas, ISBN 980-237-364-8

Plays

  • 1962 Barrabasalia . (in cooperation with Arturo Uslar Braun)
  • 1977 El solo de saxophon. comedy
  • 1987 Las Bejarano. , (with music by Luis Morales Bance)
  • 2000 El Quixote cuerdo . drama
  • 2009 Chirimoya Flat . comedy

literature

  • Herta Johansmeier: “Entrevista con Eduardo Casanova”, in: H. Johansmeier: Encrypted messages and suggestive techniques in the novels of Arturo Uslar Pietris . Marburg: Tectum Verlag 2011 (Zugl. Cologne, Univ., Diss. 2010), pp. 457-482. ISBN 978-3-8288-2500-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carta No. 1: De cómo, por obra del azar, no nací en Tinaquillo. Website eduardocasanova.com, accessed November 17, 2015
  2. ↑ Julián Padron - activista de las letras. Círculo de Escritores Venezuela on April 28, 2011, accessed November 17, 2015
  3. ↑ Carta No. 9 De cómo empezó de repente y también por azar mi verdadera vida. Eduardo Casanova website, accessed November 17, 2015
  4. ^ Hoy se presenta "El viajero, el insomne" biografía de Vicente Gerbasi . El Universal on July 18, 2013, accessed November 17, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c Eduardo Casanova ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CELARG website, accessed on November 17, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.celarg.org.ve
  6. ^ Presentación . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CELARG website, accessed on November 17, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.celarg.org.ve
  7. ↑ Rafael Ángel Divas, Gladys García Riera. Quienes escriben en Venezuela. Diccionario abbreviado de escritores venezolanos. (Siglo XVIII a XXI). Caracas 2005, p. 196 ISBN 980-376-102-1
  8. ↑ Eduardo Sánchez Gano el Premio Uslar Pietri de Novela . Círculo de Escritores de Venezuela, May 14, 2010, accessed November 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Casanova, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casanova Sucre, Eduardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan writer, playwright and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas , Venezuela