Catalina Murillo Valverde

Catalina Murillo Valverde (born 6 June 1970) is a Costa Rican author and screenwriter, winner of the in 2018 for her novel ''Maybe Managua''.

Biography

Catalina Murillo Valverde was born in a taxi in San José on 6 June 1970.

She attended college at the Liceo Franco Costarricense. She studied collective communication sciences at the University of Costa Rica and screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She worked as a screenwriter on the Costa Rican television series ' and '.

At age 28 she emigrated to Madrid, Spain. She lived there for a decade, working as a film and television screenwriter, and as an analyst and screenwriting tutor. She has been a juror and script reader for contests and festivals such as Oaxaca Sundance, Ibermedia, the Costa Rica International Book Fair, and the Guadalajara International Book Fair. She was a juror at the 2018 San José shnit international shortfilmfestival.

She has published ''Largo Domingo Cubano'' (1995), ''Marzo todopoderoso'' (2003), ''Corredoiras y Largo Domingo Cubano'' (2017), and ''Tiembla, Memoria'' (2017). In 2018, she published ''Maybe Managua'' through , for which she received the for best novel, shared with the work ''Mierda'' by Carla Pravisani.

She is currently a script consultant and teacher at Fuentetaja Workshops, as well as a thesis tutor at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).

References

External links

Catalina Murillo
at Fuentetaja Workshops
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* https://catalinamurillo.com

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1970 births
21st-century Costa Rican women writers
21st-century Costa Rican writers
Costa Rican novelists
Costa Rican women novelists
Living people
University of Costa Rica alumni
Women television writers
Writers from San José, Costa Rica
21st-century screenwriters