Francisco Massiani
Venezuelan writer and painter (1944–2019)
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Born | (1944-04-02)2 April 1944 Caracas, Venezuela |
Died | 1 April 2019(2019-04-01) (aged 74)[1] Caracas, Venezuela |
Occupation | writer, painter |
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
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Recipients of the National Prize for Literature (Venezuela)
- 1948: Mario Briceño Iragorry
- 1949: Carlos Augusto León
- 1950: Santiago Key Ayala
- 1951: Juan Liscano
- 1952: Ramón Díaz Sánchez
- 1953: Félix Armando Núñez
- 1954: Mariano Picón Salas / Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1955: Manuel Felipe Rugeles
- 1956: Miguel Otero Silva
- 1956: Augusto Mijares
- 1957: Juan Beroes
- 1958: Rómulo Gallegos
- 1959: Juan Manuel González
- 1960: José Fabbiani Ruiz
- 1961: José Ramón Medina
- 1962: José Antonio de Armas Chitty
- 1963: Luis Pastori
- 1964: Arturo Croce
- 1965: José Tadeo Arreaza Calatrava
- 1966: Alberto Arvelo Torrealba
- 1967: Fernando Paz Castillo
- 1968: Guillermo Meneses
- 1969: Vicente Gerbasi
- 1970: Alfredo Armas Alfonzo
- 1970: Luis Beltrán Guerrero
- 1971: Pablo Rojas Guardia
- 1972: Alfredo Boulton / Salvador Garmendia
- 1973: Caupolicán Ovalles / Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo / Ramón José Velásquez
- 1974: José Ramón Heredia / Pedro Pablo Barnola Duxans / Julio Garmendia
- 1975: Orlando Araujo / Ramón Palomares
- 1976: Antonia Palacios / Juan Sánchez Peláez
- 1976: Guillermo Sucre
- 1977: Ida Gramcko
- 1978: Juan David García Bacca / Luis Alberto Crespo
- 1979: Francisco Pérez Perdomo
- 1980: Adriano González León
- 1981: Miguel Ramón Utrera
- 1982: Arturo Uslar Pietri
- 1983: Pascual Venegas Filardo
- 1984: Isaac J Pardo
- 1985: Rafael Cadenas
- 1986: Luz Machado
- 1987: Rafael Ángel Díaz Sosa
- 1988: Oswaldo Trejo
- 1989: Ana Enriqueta Terán
- 1990: Guillermo Morón
- 1991: José Balza
- 1992: Pedro Pablo Paredes
- 1993: Pedro Grases
- 1994: Elizabeth Schön
- 1995: Gustavo Díaz Solís
- 1996: José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
- 1997: Alfredo Silva Estrada
- 1998: Eugenio Montejo
- 1999: Elisa Lerner
- 2000: Gustavo Pereira
- 2001: Luis Britto García
- 2002–03: Carlos Noguera
- 2004: José León Tapia
- 2006: Renato Rodríguez
- 2008–10: William Osuna
- 2011–12: Francisco Massiani
- 2013–14: Laura Antillano
- 2016–18: Gabriel Jiménez Emán
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