Alberto Barrera Tyszka

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Barrera and the second or maternal family name is Tyszka.
Alberto Barrera Tyszka

Barrera Tyszka during Chacao's Book Fair, May 2011
Born 18 February 1960
Caracas
Occupation author and teacher
Nationality Venezuelan Venezuela
Notable works The Sickness (2006)

Alberto José Barrera Tyszka (born 18 February 1960), is a Venezuelan writer. In 2006, he received the (Spanish)Herralde Prize for his novel La enfermedad ("The Sickness").

Barrera Tyszka was born in Caracas, and grew up in Venezuela. He graduated from the Central University of Venezuela, where he is now a professor in the Department of Literature. In the 1980s, he participated in the poetry movements Tráfico and Guaire. His collaborations have appeared in diverse anthologies and publications from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela. He is a regular columnist (since 1996) for the daily newspaper El Nacional, and a regular contributor to the magazine Letras Libres. He has written telenovela screenplays in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela.

He has published four novels, a poetry collection, and three books of history, including Hugo Chávez sin uniforme: una historia personal (2005), the first biography of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez (co-authored with journalist Cristina Marcano).[1] His literary influences include Fedor Dostoyevski, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, César Vallejo, Salvador Garmendia, and José Ignacio Cabrujas.

Barrera's works have been translated into Mandarin, French, English, and Italian. [2]

List of works

Novels
Short stories
Poetry
Non-fiction
Telenovelas

References

  1. ↑ Alberto Barrera Tyszka - ANAGRAMA (Spanish)
  2. ↑ (Spanish) Alberto Barrera Tyszka, "Los Imposibles". Unión Radio Medios. 6 January 2012