Denzil Romero

Denzil Romero (1938–1999) was a Venezuelan writer. He was born in Aragua de Barcelona on July 24, 1938 and died in Valencia on March 7, 1999.

Career
The son of teachers, his love for literature was awakened from very young:
I never learned to swim, I only raised the occasional parrot and I am the son of schoolteachers, so I can say without bragging that at age 15 I had already read classic Spanish literature. I admit that in my development I was influenced by some writers, of which I'll only name Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, José Donoso, Juan José Arreola, Reinaldo Arenas, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner ... and from there, Ramos Sucre, Arvelo Torrealba, Enrique Arvelo.

He became a lawyer, and was also professor of philosophy and literature.

He is considered one of the foremost writers of historical novels in the context of Venezuelan literature. His point of view of the reconstruction of historical fact obeys its own laws of narrative fiction. Some historians and writers, including Luis Alberto Crespo, have defined Denzil Romero's style of referring to his "exaggeration of reality" with a combination of the historical with the esoteric and the erotic with pseudo-realistic.

Bibliography
His work consists of novels, tales, stories and essays:
 El hombre contra el hombre - (English: Man against man) (1977).
 Infundios  - (English: Fabrications) (1978, Stories).
 El invencionero  - (English: The inventor) (1982, Stories).
 La tragedia del generalísimo  - (English: The tragedy of Generalissimo) (1983, Novel).
 Lugar de crónicas  - (English: Place of chronicles) (1985).
 Entrego los demonios  - (English: I deliver the demons) (1986, Novel).
 Grand Tour  - (1987, Novel).
 La esposa del Dr. Thorne  - (English: The wife of Dr. Thorne) (1987, Novel).
 Tardía declaración de amor de Seraphine Louis  - (English: Belated declaration of love for Seraphine Louis) (1988, Novel).
 La carujada  - (English: The outburst) (1990).
 Parece que fue ayer  - (English: It seems like only yesterday) (1991).
 El corazón en la mano  - (English: Heart in hand) (1993).
 Tonatio Castilán o un tal dios Sol  - (English: Tonatio Castilan or just the sun god) (1993).
 Amores, pasiones y vicios de la Gran Catalina  - (English: Loves, passions and vices of the Great Catherine) (1995).
 Para seguir el vagavagar  - (English: To track the vagavagar) (1998).
 Recurrencia equinoccial  - (English: Equinoctial recurrence) (Published in 2002).
 7 ensayos a medio cribar  - (English: 7 screening tests) (2001)

Prizes
 1983 Casa de las Américas Prize.
 1999 La Sonrisa Vertical Award for La esposa del Dr. Thorne.

References

External links
Interview of Denzil Romero by Alberto Hernández

Category:1938 births
Category:1999 deaths
Category:Venezuelan novelists
Category:Venezuelan male writers
Category:Male novelists
Category:20th-century novelists
Category:20th-century male writers