Francisco Massiani is Venezuela

Venezuela

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n a writer and painter. His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller

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 since its publication. It's a Bildungsroman

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 of a middle class

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 teenager in Caracas. Massiani, has won the Municipal Prize of Prose in 1998, and in 2005, the V annual contest of the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (Foundation for the Urban Culture), for the storybook Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer. In 2006, he published his first book of poetry.

Short Story

• Los tres mandamientos de Misterdoc Fonegal (1976)
• Las primeras hojas de la noche (1970)
• El llanero solitario tiene la cabeza pelada como un cepillo de dientes (1975)
• Relatos (1990)
• Con agua en la piel (1998)
• Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer (2006)

Anthologies

• 16 cuentos latinoamericanos : antología para jóvenes, Coedición Latinoamericana, 1992, ISBN 978-968-494-064-2

External links

• "Francisco Massiani", Spanish wikipedia Fragment Piedra de mar "Un regalo para Julia", de Relatos En la palabra de Pancho - Entrevista a Francisco Massiani para Lo afirmativo venezolano

See also

• Venezuela
  Venezuela
  Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
  
  
• Venezuelan literature
  Venezuelan literature
  Venezuelan literature can be traced to pre-Hispanic times with the myths and oral literature that formed the cosmogonic view of the world that indigenous people had. Some of these stories are still known in Venezuela. Like many Latin American countries, the Spanish conquerors have had the greatest...