Francisco Massiani

Francisco Massiani
Born	(1944-04-02)2 April 1944 Caracas, Venezuela
Died	1 April 2019(2019-04-01) (aged 74) Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation	writer, painter
Notable works	Piedra de mar (1968)
Notable awards	National Prize for Literature (2012)

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. 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. 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, ISBN 978-968-494-064-2

External links

• (in Spanish) Fragment Piedra de mar
• (in Spanish) "Un regalo para Julia", from Relatos
• (in Spanish) En la palabra de Pancho – Interview to Francisco Massiani in Lo afirmativo venezolano