Julio de la Vega

Julio de la Vega was born in Puerto Suárez, on the Brazilian border, on 4 March 1924. A poet first, in 1947 he received the natural flower at the Cervantine floral games of La Paz and is among the founders of the second Gesta Bárbara. His verse won him the Franz Tamayo Prize in 1966. A novelist afterwards, he received the Pablo Neruda Medal from Chile in 2004, then, the following year, his country's national culture prize. He died on 11 November 2010, aged eighty-six.

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• NovelMatías, el apóstol suplenteJulio de la Vega · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature