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Rómulo Gallegos

1884 - 1969

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Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power after only nine months by a military coup. Rómulo Gallegos is considered the most relevant Venezuelan novelist of the 20th century and a prominent figure in Latin American literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rómulo Gallegos is the 1,891st most popular writer (up from 2,191st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Venezuela (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 1,891 out of 7,302. Before him are Nicolás Guillén, Luigi Illica, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Pjetër Bogdani, Émile Augier, and João de Barros. After him are Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hincmar, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Machen, Sulpicia, and Branko Ćopić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 63. Before him are Henri Cornet, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Yasuji Okamura, Drastamat Kanayan, Corrado Gini, and Georges Duhamel. After him are Georg Lindemann, Jean Paulhan, Mikhail Borodin, Helene Deutsch, Joseph Boxhall, and Clark L. Hull. Among people deceased in 1969, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 73. Before him are Tom Naudé, Leo McCarey, Léon Brillouin, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Joseph Kosma, and Adolfo López Mateos. After him are Frederic Bartlett, Meher Baba, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jeffrey Hunter, John Kennedy Toole, and Mikio Naruse.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 18 out of 183. Before him are Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), Rómulo Betancourt (1908), José Antonio Páez (1790), Juan José Flores (1800), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), and Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914). After him are Andrés Bello (1781), Arturo Sosa (1948), José Antonio Abreu (1939), Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Teresa Carreño (1853), and José Gregorio Hernández (1864).

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Among WRITERS In Venezuela

Among writers born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 1. After him are Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906), Eugenio Montejo (1938), Rafael Cadenas (1930), Miguel Otero Silva (1908), José Gil Fortoul (1861), Francisco Villarroel (1965), and Boris Izaguirre (1965).

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