Óscar Yanes

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Óscar Yanes
Caracas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
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Óscar Armando Yanes González (25 April 1927–21 October 2013) was a Venezuelan journalist and bestselling author, considered a pioneer in Venezuelan broadcast journalism. He was awarded three times with the National Prize for Journalism.

Biography

As a child he attended the Zamora School. The idol of where he lived, at that time, was a boxer named Armando Best. Pompeyo Márquez and Eloy Torres also studied at that school.[

Últimas Noticias, El Nacional and El Morrocoy Blue. Yanes signed up for the founding squad of Últimas Noticias and stayed there for a few years.[1]

At age 25 he assumes the direction of the newspaper La Esfera. Ramón David León, who gave him the chance at 13 years of getting to know the world of journalism, gives him his office and his position 12 years later, when he decides to sell the newspaper and buys it Miguel Ángel Capriles.

-Leading the team of

Vietcong
", "The Religion "(la religion) and" The Vietnamese Woman. "(la mujer Vietnamita).

He stood out as professor of the first class of the School of Social Communication of the Central University of Venezuela" Universidad Central de Venezuela" and dictated a Class in the "Universidad Catolica Andres Bello"Andrés Bello Catholic University of Caracas.[2]

He won on three occasions the National Prize for Journalism, the Monseñor Pellín Prize and the First Prize of the Association of Writers of Venezuela in the contest of biographies of famous Venezuelans, for his work entitled "Carlos J. Bello, the Forgotten Sage". He also won the Silver Book Award in 1992, awarded by

Editorial Planeta
for the book with the highest circulation of the year.

Considered one of the pioneers in Realtime TV journalism, with particular interviews confronting many in front of the cameras, he became famous for his rhetoric and historic ways in television programs.

Óscar Yanes was famous for his tales about contemporary history in the TV program Así son las Cosas (The way things are). In the late 1940s received the first prize from the Venezuelan Association of Writers for his book Carlos J. Bello, el Sabio Olvidado (Carlos J. Bello, the forgotten wise man). In 1992 won the Silver Book Prize awarded by Planeta Publishing, for the largest book circulation of the year.[3]

Óscar Yanes died on 21 October 2013, due to complications with prostate cancer.[4][5]

Published works

  • Carlos J. Bello, el Sabio Olvidado (1946)
  • Vida íntima de Leo (1948)
  • Cosas de Caracas (1967) Editorial Planeta.
  • Cosas del mundo (1972)
  • Por qué yo maté a Delgado Chalbaud, las Confesiones de Pedro Antonio Díaz (1980)
  • Amores del última Página (1991) Editorial Planeta.
  • Memorias de Armandito (1992) Editorial Planeta.
  • Los años inolvidables (1992) Editorial Planeta.
  • Del Trocadero al Pasapoga (1993) Editorial Planeta.
  • Hoy es mañana o las vainas de un reportero muerto (1994) Editorial Planeta.
  • Así Son las Cosas collection (1996–1999) Editorial Planeta.
  • ¿Qué opina UD. de la mujer que le quita el marido a otra? (1997)
  • Pura Pantalla (2000) Editorial Planeta.
  • Ternera y Puerta Franca (2003) Editorial Planeta.
  • Nadie me quita lo Bailao (2007) Editorial Planeta.
  • Nadie me quita lo Bailao II (2009) Editorial Planeta.
  • Así Son las Cosas. Edición Limitada (2010) Editorial Planeta.
  • La verdad sobre el asesinato de Delgado Chalbaud (2011) Editorial Planeta.

Television programs

  • Así son las Cosas (Premio Monseñor Pellín 1997).
  • La Silla Caliente (1998).[6]
  • La Mañana Caliente (1999).
  • Óscar Yanes en la Guataca (2000).
  • Lo que Usted No Sabe (2006).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Así son las cosas – Biografía" [That's the way things are – Biography]. venevision.net. 4 December 2000. Archived from the original on 4 December 2000. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Oscar Yanes deja un hondo vacío en el mundo intelectual". venevision.com (in Spanish). 21 October 2013. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Los 80 años de Oscar Yánes". El Universal (in Spanish). April 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Murió Óscar Yanes". Ultimas Noticias. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Falleció el periodista Óscar Yanes". El Universal (in Spanish). 21 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  6. ^ Entrevista de Óscar Yanes al candidato Hugo Chávez (1998)

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