Camilo Pino La Corte is a

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n novelist. He was born in

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in 1970, the son of historian Elias Pino Iturrieta. He is the author o
Crema Paraíso
(Alianza, 2020)
Mandrágora
(SED, 2017) an
Valle Zamuro
(Pre-Textos an
Punto Cero
2011). Pino studied journalism at the

Universidad Central de Venezuela The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in L ...

and communications at the

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. He also studied poetry at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos. In 1986, Pino founded the magazine ''Al Encuentro''. In 2010 he was awarded the Carolina Coronado Prize for literature in Venezuela for his

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ...

''Valle Zamuro''. In evaluating the work, Spanish novelist

Almudena Grandes María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021) was a Spanish writer. Author of 13 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won t ...

said, " inohas debuted with an extraordinary and splendid work" which has ".
changed the way I read novels
" A selected group of Venezuelan intellectuals and writers included Valle Zamuro in th
Prodavinci.com
list of ten bes
books of the year 2011
Pino currently lives in Miami, Florida, where he develops literary adaptations for television.

References

External links

Crema Paraíso reviewed by Hernán Vera in Latin American Literature Today
2021.

Interview by Nelson Rivera. Papel Literario de El Nacional. July, 2020 (Spanish).

Review of Crema Paraíso
by Federico Vegas. Prodavinci, 2020. Spanish.
Interview by Leaticia Rovecchio Antón. Pliego Suelto. July, 2020.

Sandra Caula reviews Crema Paraíso for Cinco8.

- ttp://issuu.com/emmanuelcc/docs/claro210 Interview by Jaime Bello León. Revista Claro (Nr. 210, 2011). Spanish. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pino, Camilo 1970 births Venezuelan novelists Venezuelan male writers Male novelists Living people Writers from Caracas Hispanic and Latino American writers Hispanic and Latino American novelists