Rafael Cadenas

Rafael Cadenas was born in Barquisimeto in 1930. A communist activist, he knew prison and exile under the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and lived in Trinidad until the end of the fifties. Back in Caracas, he belonged to the Tabla Redonda group, taught at the School of Letters of the Universidad Central de Venezuela and translated, among others, Whitman, Cavafy and D. H. Lawrence. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1985 and, in 2022, the Cervantes Prize, the first Venezuelan to win it.

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• PoetryDefeatDerrotaRafael Cadenas · 1963Literature