Francisco Massiani

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