Francisco Massiani
Francisco Massiani 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, 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
;NovelPiedra de mar Los tres mandamientos de Misterdoc Fonegal;Short StoryFiesta de campo/Renate o la vida siempre como en un comienzo Las primeras hojas de la noche El llanero solitario tiene la cabeza pelada como un cepillo de dientes Relatos Con agua en la piel Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer
;Poetry
- 2006 Antología
- 2007 Señor de la ternura
- 2011 Corsarios
- 16 cuentos latinoamericanos : antología para jóvenes, Coedición Latinoamericana, 1992,