Rómulo Gallegos

Known for: Writer
Date of birth: 1884. August 2.
Place of birth: Caracas, Venezuela

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. Gallegos is considered the most relevant Venezuelan novelist ...