Who is more successful as an author, Rómulo Gallegos or James Patterson?
Rómulo Gallegos Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history.
Pablo Montoya (author) Pablo José Montoya Campuzano (born Barrancabermeja, 1963) is a Colombian writer. He is best known for his novel "Tríptico de la infamia" which won the Romulo Gallegos Prize in 2015. He is as of 2016, the fifth Colombian to obtain this recognition, being preceded by Gabriel García Márquez in 1972, Manuel Mejía Vallejo in 1989, Fernando Vallejo in 2003 and William Ospina in 2009.