Guillermo Sucre

Guillermo Sucre studied at Central University of Venezuela. The recorded working language is Spanish. Employment is recorded with Simón Bolívar University, University of Pittsburgh and Central University of Venezuela. Distinctions recorded are National Prize for Literature of Venezuela and Guggenheim Fellowship.

He translated into Spanish the works of André Breton, Saint-John Perse, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. In 1957 he founded the literary journal Sardío and an associated literary group. He began teaching at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in that same year. From 1968 until 1975 he lived in the United States, where he lectured at the University of Pittsburgh and became a member of Pitt's Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Upon his return to Venezuela he taught at the Universidad Simón Bolívar and became literary director of the publishing house Monte Ávila Editores. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1976 for his essay La máscara, la transparencia.

He was also a member of the Sucre family like his uncle Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre and his older brothers General Juan Manuel Sucre Figarella, and Senator Leopoldo Sucre Figarella.

• Borges, el poeta (1967) • La máscara, la transparencia (1975) • Mientras suceden los días (1961) • La mirada (1970) • En el verano cada palabra respira en el verano (1976) • Serpiente breve (1977) • La vastedad (1990)