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Vicente Gerbasi

Died in 1992

Vicente Gerbasi was born on 2 June 1913 in Canoabo, in the state of Carabobo, to immigrant parents from southern Italy, where he was sent as a child to study. Back in Venezuela, he was a bank clerk and a journalist before becoming the leading poet of the Viernes group, formed in Caracas in 1938, which renewed Venezuelan poetry. A diplomat, he represented Venezuela in Haiti, Israel, Denmark and Poland. He died in Caracas on 28 December 1992.

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