Julián Padrón

Julián Padrón

Julián Padrón (born September 8, 1910 in San Antonio de Maturín , Venezuela , † August 2, 1954 in Caracas , Venezuela) was a Venezuelan writer, journalist and lawyer.

Life

Julián Padrón was born on September 8, 1910 in San Antonio de Maturín, in the state of Monagas . He started primary education in private schools in Cumaná , Sucre State . He later started his secondary education at the Liceo Andrés Bello in Caracas and graduated in 1929 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.

In 1935 he was appointed an attorney by the Supreme Court of the Federal District and received a PhD in Political Science from the Central University of Venezuela that same year . He graduated from the same university in 1944 with the qualification for a diplomatic and consular career.

In 1929, Julián Padrón had already started writing for the Caracas magazine Elite . Later, Padrón, Arturo Uslar Pietri , Pedro Sotillo and Bruno Plá founded and directed the short-lived literary newspaper El Ingenioso Hidalgo (1935). His first novel La Guaricha was published in 1934, his last novel was published twenty years later in 1954 under the title Este Mundo Desolado (This desolate world). He also wrote short stories and for the comedy theater.

Padrón worked as the founder and editor of the Unidad Nacional newspaper (1936). He was also an employee of the El Universal newspaper from Caracas from 1945 to 1947, as well as other Venezuelan newspapers and magazines. From 1952 to 1954 he edited the first three volumes of the three-month publication Revista Shell for the Compañía Shell de Venezuela.

Julián Padrón held these offices:

• President of the Asociación de Escritores Venezolanos (Association of Venezuelan Writers) (1937) and (1940).
• Founder and director of their literary magazine Cuadernos literarios de la Asociación de Escritores Venezolanos .
• Director of the Literature Committee of the Ateneo de Caracas (1940).

Julián Padrón died in Caracas on August 2, 1954. Padrón was the namesake of the Biblioteca Julián Padrón municipal library in his native Maturín, which was opened in 1954 .

Works

Novels

• La Guaricha (1934)
• Madrugada (1939)
• Clamor Campesino (1945)
• Primavera Nocturna (1950)
• Este Mundo Desolado (1954)

Short stories

• Candelas de verano (1937)

Comedies and pranks

• Fogata (1938). A farce in three acts.
• Parásitas Negras (1939). A variation in three acts and seven pictures.

Complete edition

• Obras completas. (= Ediciones Cultura del Estado de Monagas ; Volume 4). Aguilar, México, DF 1957 (with 1594 pages and a portrait).

In 1940, Padrón and Arturo Uslar Pietri published the two-part anthology Antología del Cuento Moderno Venezolano (anthology of modern Venezuelan narrative). In 1945 Padrón published the anthology Cuentistas Modernos (Modern Narrators).

None of his works has yet been translated into German.

source

The following book has a short biography of Julián Padróns:

• Julián Padrón: La Guaricha. Ediciones Amon, Caracas 1984. (Biblioteca de Temas y Autores Monaguenses; Colección Guácharo; Reediciones y Biografías).

literature

• Maurice Belrose: Introduction à l'univers romanesque de Julián Padrón (Venezuela). Presses Universitaires Créoles / L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0875-3 . With bibliography.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ISSN  0484-8195