Julio de la Vega

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Julio de la Vega (4 March 1924 – 11 November 2010) was a Bolivian poet, writer and teacher. He was born in Puerto Suárez, Santa Cruz. In the 1940s he helped found the Bolivian literary group Gesta Bárbara. He won the Flor Natural Prize in 1947 at the Juegos Florales Cervantinos in La Paz. In 1966 he published Poemario de exaltaciones, which won the Premio Franz Tamayo. In 1969 he received a first mention at the Premio Erich Guttentag for his novel Matías, el apóstol suplente, admired as one of Bolivia’s best works. He taught literature at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés from 1971 to 2000 and joined the Bolivian Academy of Language in 1976. He received the Pablo Neruda Medal in 2004 and the National Culture Award in 2005. He died in 2010.