Informacion Romulo Gallegos En Ingles

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969[1]) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history.
Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas to Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin. He began his work as a schoolteacher,writer, and journalist in 1903. His novel Doña Bárbara was first published 1929, and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country. He took refuge in Spain, where he continued to write: his acclaimed novels Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935) date from this period. He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and wasappointed Minister of Public Education.
In 1937 he was elected to Congress and, in 1940–41, served as councillor of Caracas. In 1945, was involved in the coup d'état that brought Rómulo Betancourt and the "Revolutionary Government Junta" to power, in the period known as El Trienio Adeco. In the 1947 general election he ran for the presidency of the republic as the Acción Democrática candidate and won inwhat is generally believed to be the country's first honest election. He took office in February 1948, but officers Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, threw him out of office in November in the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état. He took refuge first in Cuba and then in Mexico. From 1960 to 1963, he was Commissioner of the newly created Inter-American Commissionon Human Rights (created on 18 August 1959), and he was also its first President (1960).
He was able to return to Venezuela in 1958. He was appointed a senator for life, awarded the National Literature Prize (1958, for La doncella), and elected to the Venezuelan Academy of the Language (the correspondent agency in Venezuela of the Spanish Royal Academy).[2] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize inLiterature in 1960, largely due to the efforts of Miguel Otero Silva, and gained widespread support in Latin America,[3] but ultimately lost out to Saint-John Perse. The Rómulo Gallegos international novel prize was created in his honor in 1964, with the first award being made in 1967. Rómulo Gallegos Freire died in Caracas on 5 April 1969.

Dona Barbara
Doña Bárbara is a novelby Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929.[1] It was described in 1974 as "possibly the most widely known Latin American novel".[2]
This regionalist novel deals with the confrontation between civilization and the barbaric aspects of the rural environment and its inhabitants. It establishes a psychological study of the people of the Venezuelan plains:[3] victims of unfortunate situations, but atthe same time strong and courageous.

Publication
Gallegos took his first trip into the Llanos of Apure, central Venezuela at Easter 1927, in order to gather material for the book he was writing, staying on a ranch near San Fernando de Apure.  He gathered many details of the local idiom, scenery, and daily life, and was inspired by the real people he encountered; Doña Bárbara herself isderived at least in part from the local landowner Doña Pancha. Of the fifty place names mentioned, over half are easily identifiable in the area, and many more can be associated with existing sites with a little more effort.[4]
Within a month of returning to Caracas the first pages of the resulting novel, La Coronela, were being printed.[4] Yet dissatisfied with the title and the first printed pages,Gallegos called the printing off.[4] Gallegos then took his wife to Bologna, Italy, for an operation, and returned to the manuscript, making substantial revisions and coming up with a better title: Doña Bárbara.[4] The novel was then first published in Barcelona, Spain, in February 1929, by Spanish publisher Editorial Araluce.[5][6]  Gallegos later made further changes, until the author was...