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Pedro Sotillo

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Pedro Sotillo was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and poet. He was a distinguished member of the Generation of 1928 and co-founder of several well-known magazines such as El Ingenioso Hidalgo and Válvula.

Early Life

Pedro Sotillo was born in San José de Unare, Venezuela, in 1902. In 1928, Sotillo and several other young writers, including Arturo Úslar Pietri, Miguel Otero Silva, Nelson Himiob , Fernando Paz Castillo, Gonzalo Carnevalli, among others, founded the literary magazine Válvula. Válvula was considered the official voice of the Venezuelan vanguardistas.

Journalist work

In 1935, Pedro Sotillo founded another magazine, El Ingenioso Hidalgo, along with his friends Arturo Úslar Pietri, Julián Padrón, and Alfredo Boulton. Later, in 1939, he published his first work, Andanzas; other works would follow suit, La Calle y Los Caminos in 1951, and Caminos nocturnos, in 1956.

During the 1940s, Pedro Sotillo worked as director of El Nacional, which is today one of Venezuela's largest newspapers, and that was founded by his friend, novelist Miguel Otero Silva.

Last years

Pedro Sotillo occupied serveral political posts during the 1950s, including Secretary of Government, governor of the state of Guárico, and as a Venezuelan congressman. Pedro Sotillo dies in Caracas in 1977.

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