Francisco Massiani Explained
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,
External links
Notes and References
- News: Novelist and short story writer Francisco Massiani dies . 2 April 2019 . El Universal.
- Web site: Unofficial biography of Francisco Massiani. Francisco Massiani life and work. Francisco Massiani contributions and web resources . 10 January 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110906084513/http://www.mundoandino.com/Venezuela/Francisco-Massiani . 6 September 2011 . dead . dmy-all .
- Web site: Fallece el escritor venezolano Francisco Massiani. 1 April 2019.
- Web site: R.E. Lectura - Massiani, Francisco . 2011-01-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100811221741/http://www.relectura.org/cms/content/view/183/75/ . 11 August 2010 . dmy-all .
