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Eugenio Montejo

1938 - 2008

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Eugenio Montejo (1938 in Caracas – 5 June 2008 in Valencia) was a Venezuelan poet and essay writer, founder of the literary magazine Azar and co-founder of Revista Poesía, a poetry magazine published by the University of Carabobo. He was researcher at the "Rómulo Gallegos" Centre for Latin American Studies in Caracas and contributed to a large number of national and international magazines. In Venezuela he was awarded the National Prize for Literature in 1998 and in 2004 he received the International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay. International interest in Montejo's poetry grew after his poem "La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos" ("The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer") was used in the film 21 Grams by feted Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugenio Montejo is the 4,839th most popular writer (up from 5,463rd in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Venezuela (up from 74th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Venezuelan Writer.

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Among writers, Eugenio Montejo ranks 4,839 out of 7,302. Before him are Roger Ascham, C. A. Rosetti, Rosa Liksom, I. A. L. Diamond, Helen Fielding, and Günter Kunert. After him are Nh. Dini, Erlend Loe, Zhu Ziqing, Tommaso Grossi, Martin Suter, and Gavino Ledda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Eugenio Montejo ranks 401. Before him are Simone de Oliveira, Maurizio Costanzo, Carlos Lapetra, Justin Lekhanya, Edda Moser, and Edem Kodjo. After him are Victor Buono, Gavino Ledda, Martin Lee, Connie Stevens, Indira Nath, and Millie Perkins. Among people deceased in 2008, Eugenio Montejo ranks 245. Before him are Heinz Wewers, Leonard Rosenman, Wu Xueqian, Tom Lantos, Ola Brunkert, and John Templeton. After him are Kurt Furgler, William Gibson, Gábor Delneky, Halszka Osmólska, Sergey Mergelyan, and Mikhail Solomentsev.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Eugenio Montejo ranks 65 out of 183. Before him are José Gregorio Monagas (1795), Lupita Ferrer (1947), Juan Bautista Pérez (1869), Susana Duijm (1936), Edgar Sanabria (1911), and Andrés Narvarte (1781). After him are Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (1942), Simón Díaz (1928), Leonardo Jardim (1974), José María Carreño (1792), Victorino Márquez Bustillos (1858), and Jacinto Convit (1913).

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Among WRITERS In Venezuela

Among writers born in Venezuela, Eugenio Montejo ranks 4. Before him are Rómulo Gallegos (1884), Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), and Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906). After him are Rafael Cadenas (1930), Miguel Otero Silva (1908), José Gil Fortoul (1861), Francisco Villarroel (1965), and Boris Izaguirre (1965).

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