Óscar Sambrano Urdaneta Explained

Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta
Birth Date:	6 February 1929
Birth Place:	Boconó, Trujillo state
Occupation:	Writer, literary critic, essayist
Nationality:	Venezuelan
Genre:	Literary criticism, essay
Notableworks:	Del ser y del quehacer de Julio Garmendia
Signature:	Signature of Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta.jpg

Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (6 February 1929 – 14 June 2011^[1]) was a Venezuelan writer, essayist and literary critic, specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello. In 1978, he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. He served as the president of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, is an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, and was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC) in the late 1990s. He also has hosted the television show Valores (Values).^[2]

Partial bibliography

• Cecilio Acosta, vida y obra
• Apreciación literaria
• "El Llanero", un problema de crítica literaria
• Cronología de Andrés Bello
• El epistolario de Andrés Bello
• El Andrés Bello Universal
• Verdades y mentiras sobre Andrés Bello
• Aproximaciones a Bello
• Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela
• Literatura hispanoamericana (In collaboration with Domingo Miliani)
• Del ser y del quehacer de Julio Garmendia

References

• • Web site: Bello y Sambrano Urdaneta . Pedro Pablo Paredes . 30 June 2008 . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20090327113211/http://www.clubdemocrata.com/articulos/Bello_y_Sambrano_Urdaneta.pdf . 27 March 2009 . dead .

• Web site: Óscar Sambrano Urdaneta. MSN Encarta. 30 June 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080317233842/http://mx.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_961536490/%C3%93scar_Sambrano_Urdaneta.html. 17 March 2008. dead.
• El Universal, 30 June 2008. "En el País existe segregación", interview to Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta

Notes and References

1. Web site: El Nacional . 2011 . Falleció Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta a los 82 años de edad . 14 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110816060114/http://www.el-nacional.com/www/site/p_contenido.php?q=nodo%2F214624%2FArte%20y%20Espect%C3%A1culos%2FFalleci%C3%B3-Oscar-Sambrano-Urdaneta-a-los-82-a%C3%B1os-de-edad . 16 August 2011 . dead .
2. Web site: Oscar el bellista. El Espectador. 30 June 2008.