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. Provided by Wikipedia