Francisco Massiani

Francisco Massiani (Caracas, 2 April, 1944) is Venezuelan a 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Contents 1 Main works 1.1 Novel 1.2 Short Story 1.3 Poetry 1.4 Anthologies 2 References 3 External links 4 See also

Main works

Novel

• Piedra de mar (1968)

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)

Poetry

• 2006 Antología
• 2007 Señor de la ternura

Anthologies

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

References

External links

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

See also

• Venezuela
• Venezuelan literature

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