Ibsen Martínez is a columnist, journalist, and award-winning playwright from Caracas, Venezuela.
Since 1995, he has written a weekly column for El Nacional. His writings have appeared in El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Letras Libres, Madrid, and El País in Madrid. Martinez has also written several plays for the theater.
Mr. Martínez also writes soap operas (called "telenovelas" en Latin America. One of them was "Por Estas Calles" (Along these streets) TV-Drama;1992