Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) was a Venezuelan literary historian and man of letters who played a major role in bringing the works of Latin American writers to world attention. He is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.

Works

1899: Trovadores y trovas

1900: Cuentos de poeta

1904: Cuentos americanos

1907: El hombre de hierro

1911: Cantos de la prisión y del destierro

1915: El hombre de oro

1917: Grandes escritores de América

1921: El conquistador español del siglo XVI

1927: La mitra en la mano

1931: La bella y la fiera

1933: Camino de imperfección

References

People from Caracas

Venezuelan male writers

Male novelists

Ambassadors of Venezuela to Uruguay

1874 births

1944 deaths

Burials at the National Pantheon of Venezuela

20th-century Venezuelan novelists

Prisoners and detainees of Venezuela

Rufino Blanco Fombona