Rafael Bolivar Coronado

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Rafael Bolivar Coronado was born June 6, 1884 in Villa de Cura, (Aragua State), He is the author of the lyrics of the popular joropo "Alma Llanera". He arrives to Caracas in 1912 and he begins to canalize his restlessness towards to the intellectuality, collaborating with the most important publications of the time: El Cojo Ilustrado, El Nuevo Diario, El Universal.He knows Pedro Elías Gutiérrez and he writes the lyrics to him of his next great musical opening, zarzuela "Alma Llanera"; that it was released in Caracas in 1914. The president Juan Vicente Gómez awards him with a scholarship for Spain and is there where the originalities of Bolivar Coronado create a chaos within the literary critic, because he was dedicated to write and to publish with pseudonyms, but the pseudonyms that used were the names of important Venezuelan writers, some of recent death and other alive ones still and as so he sold them to editorials. He writes and sold to Rufino Blanco Fombona the book "Letras Españolas". The historian Rafael Ramón Castellanos, in his book of Bolivar Coronado, says that this one used more than six hundred names and between these he was the one of Daniel Mendoza, who used to sign his book "the LLanero". The writer and poet Rafael Bolivar Coronado dies on January 31, 1924 in Barcelona, Spain. Victim of an influenza epidemic, he died when he peculiarly wrote "the Deluge" for the Barcelonian newspaper.

Rafael Bolivar Coronado

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