Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde

He translated works of English, German, Italian, Danish, Chinese, Portuguese, French writers into Spanish.

He lived many years in exile, due to political problems his family had with the government of that time.

After the conclusion of the conflict he returned to Venezuela in 1864 but his stay was short lived when Antonio Guzmán Blanco came to power in 1870.

[1] He settled in New York, from where he traveled through the United States, Europe and South America but later returned to Venezuela in 1876 at the advent of a new president, Francisco Linares Alcántara.

[1] Pérez Bonalde came back to his home country in 1889 at the request of President Raimundo Andueza Palacio but he could not assume his new post as diplomat due to health problems.