Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Hugo León Ferrer for Telemundo in 2008–2009. It is based on the 1929 Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos.
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Doña Bárbara is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929. It was described in 1974 as "possibly the most widely known Latin American novel".
Doña Bárbara (2008 TV series)
…Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Hugo León Ferrer for Telemundo in 2008–2009. It is based on the 1929 Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos. Like most of its soap operas, the network initially broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 until late October, when…
Cover of the first edition of Doña Bárbara
Gallegos based the character of Maria Nieves on a real man of the same name he knew during his travels in the plains. Maria Nieves photographed here in 1920 ready to direct the cattle across a river.