Francisco Massiani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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writer from Venezuela
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Place of Birth: Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
About 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.
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