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Guillermo Sucre Figarella (15 May 1933 – 22 July 2021^[1]), was a Venezuelan poet and literary critic born in Tumeremo in the state of Bolivar. 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.

Literary critic and academic

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 till 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.

Notable works

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)

References

^ Falleció el poeta y ensayista Guillermo Sucre (in Spanish)

Balderston, Daniel, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, p. 553
http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_961532585/Guillermo_Sucre.html (Archived 2009-11-01)

v t e Recipients of the National Prize for Literature (Venezuela)
1948–1950	1948: Mario Briceño Iragorry 1949: Carlos Augusto León 1950: Santiago Key Ayala
1951–1975	1951: Juan Liscano 1952: Ramón Díaz Sánchez 1953: Félix Armando Núñez 1954: Mariano Picón Salas / Arturo Uslar Pietri 1955: Manuel Felipe Rugeles 1956: Miguel Otero Silva 1956: Augusto Mijares 1957: Juan Beroes 1958: Rómulo Gallegos 1959: Juan Manuel González 1960: José Fabbiani Ruiz 1961: José Ramón Medina 1962: José Antonio de Armas Chitty 1963: Luis Pastori 1964: Arturo Croce 1965: José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava 1966: Alberto Arvelo Torrealba 1967: Fernando Paz Castillo 1968: Guillermo Meneses 1969: Vicente Gerbasi 1970: Alfredo Armas Alfonzo 1970: Luis Beltrán Guerrero 1971: Pablo Rojas Guardia 1972: Alfredo Boulton / Salvador Garmendia 1973: Caupolicán Ovalles / Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo / Ramón José Velásquez 1974: José Ramón Heredia / Pedro Pablo Barnola Duxans / Julio Garmendia 1975: Orlando Araujo / Ramón Palomares
1976–2000	1976: Antonia Palacios / Juan Sánchez Peláez 1976: Guillermo Sucre 1977: Ida Gramcko 1978: Juan David García Bacca / Luis Alberto Crespo 1979: Francisco Pérez Perdomo 1980: Adriano González León 1981: Miguel Ramón Utrera 1982: Arturo Uslar Pietri 1983: Pascual Venegas Filardo 1984: Isaac J Pardo 1985: Rafael Cadenas 1986: Luz Machado 1987: Rafael Ángel Díaz Sosa 1988: Oswaldo Trejo 1989: Ana Enriqueta Terán 1990: Guillermo Morón 1991: José Balza 1992: Pedro Pablo Paredes 1993: Pedro Grases 1994: Elizabeth Schön 1995: Gustavo Díaz Solís 1996: José Manuel Briceño Guerrero 1997: Alfredo Silva Estrada 1998: Eugenio Montejo 1999: Elisa Lerner 2000: Gustavo Pereira
2001–2025	2001: Luis Britto García 2002–03: Carlos Noguera 2004: José León Tapia 2006: Renato Rodríguez 2008–10: William Osuna 2011–12: Francisco Massiani 2013–14: Laura Antillano 2016–18: Gabriel Jiménez Emán

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