| Catalina Murillo | |
| Birth Name: | Catalina Murillo Valverde |
| Birth Date: | 6 June 1970 |
| Birth Place: | San José, Costa Rica |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Notable Works: | Maybe Managua |
| Awards: | (2018) |
Catalina Murillo Valverde (born 6 June 1970) is a Costa Rican author and screenwriter, winner of the in 2018 for her novel Maybe Managua.
Catalina Murillo Valverde was born in a taxi in San José on 6 June 1970.[1]
She attended college at the Liceo Franco Costarricense. She studied collective communication sciences at the University of Costa Rica and screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She worked as a screenwriter on the Costa Rican television series and .[2]
At age 28 she emigrated to Madrid, Spain. She lived there for a decade, working as a film and television screenwriter, and as an analyst and screenwriting tutor. She has been a juror and script reader for contests and festivals such as Oaxaca Sundance, Ibermedia, the Costa Rica International Book Fair, and the Guadalajara International Book Fair.[3] She was a juror at the 2018 San José shnit international shortfilmfestival.[4]
She has published Largo Domingo Cubano (1995), Marzo todopoderoso (2003), Corredoiras y Largo Domingo Cubano (2017), and Tiembla, Memoria (2017).[5] In 2018, she published Maybe Managua through, for which she received the for best novel, shared with the work Mierda by Carla Pravisani.[6]
She is currently a script consultant and teacher at Fuentetaja Workshops, as well as a thesis tutor at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).