Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (6 February 1929 – 14 June 2011) was a Venezuelan writer, essayist and literary critic, specialized in the life and work of Andrés Bello. In 1978, he won the Municipal Prize of Literature for the work Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela. He served as the president of the Venezuelan Academy of Language, is an honorary member of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, and was president of the National Council of Culture (CONAC) in the late 1990s. He also has hosted the television show Valores (Values).
Partial bibliography Cecilio Acosta, vida y obra Apreciación literaria "El Llanero", un problema de crítica literaria Cronología de Andrés Bello El epistolario de Andrés Bello El Andrés Bello Universal Verdades y mentiras sobre Andrés Bello Aproximaciones a Bello Poesía contemporánea de Venezuela Literatura hispanoamericana (In collaboration with Domingo Miliani) Del ser y del quehacer de Julio Garmendia
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El Universal, 30 June 2008. "En el País existe segregación", interview to Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta