Writer Salvador Garmendia speaks in an interview in Caracas, Venezuela in this July 24, 1993, photo. Garmendia is one of the most famous Venezuelan writers who won the National Prize in Literature in 1972, and the Juan Rulfo Prize for his work As Nude as a Rock in 1989. Garmendia died Sunday May 13, 2001, of complications from diabetes and cancer at the age of 72. (AP Photo/Gustavo Acevedo)