Francisco Massiani

Venezuelan writer and painter (1944–2019)

Francisco Massiani

Born	(1944-04-02)2 April 1944 Caracas, Venezuela
Died	1 April 2019(2019-04-01) (aged 74)^[1] Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation	writer, painter
Nationality	Venezuelan
Notable works	Piedra de mar (1968)
Notable awards	National Prize for Literature (2012)

Francisco Massiani (2 April 1944 – 1 April 2019) was a Venezuelan writer and painter. His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller since its publication. It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas.^[2]^[3] Massiani, 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.^[4] In 2012 he won the National Prize for Literature, as a recognition to his entire body of work.

List of works

Novel

Piedra de mar (1968)
Los tres mandamientos de Misterdoc Fonegal (1976)

Short Story

Fiesta de campo/Renate o la vida siempre como en un comienzo (1965; published in 2008)
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)

Poetry

2006 Antología
2007 Señor de la ternura
2011 Corsarios

Anthologies

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

References

^ "Novelist and short story writer Francisco Massiani dies". El Universal. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ "Unofficial biography of Francisco Massiani. Francisco Massiani life and work. Francisco Massiani contributions and web resources". Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "Fallece el escritor venezolano Francisco Massiani". 1 April 2019.
^ "R.E. Lectura - Massiani, Francisco". Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011.

External links

(in Spanish) Fragment Piedra de mar
(in Spanish) "Un regalo para Julia", from Relatos
(in Spanish) En la palabra de Pancho – Interview to Francisco Massiani in Lo afirmativo venezolano

Recipients of the National Prize for Literature (Venezuela)

1948–1950