Juan Carlos Chirinos García (
Valera
Valera is a city in Trujillo State in Venezuela, situated between the rivers Momboy and Motatán. The mayor is José Karkom, who has had that post since 2013. The city is home to Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Colombian and Spanish communit ...
, May 3, 1967) is a
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
n writer and creative writing teacher. He is a novelist, story writer and biographer.
Books
* ''Renacen las sombras'' (2021), novel.
* ''La sonrisa de los hipopótamos'' (2020), short-stories.
* ''Los cielos de curumo'' (2019), novel.
*''Venezuela. Biografía de un suicidio'' (2017), essay.
*''La manzana de Nietzsche'' (2015), short-stories.
*''Gemelas'' (2013), novel.
*''Nochebosque'' (2011), novel.
*''El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira'' (2004), novel.
*''Los sordos trilingües'' (2011), short-stories.
*''Homero haciendo zapping'' (2003), short-stories.
*''Leerse los gatos'' (1997), short-stories.
*''Miranda, el nómada sentimental'' (2006), biography.
*''La reina de los cuatro nombres. Olimpia, madre de Alejandro Magno'' (2005), biography.
*''Alberto Einstein, cartas probables para Hann'' (2004), biography,
*''Alejandro Magno, el vivo anhelo de conocer'' (2004), biography.
Anthologies
* ''Escribir afuera - «España se ríe de Casandra»'' (Madrid, Kalathos Ediciones, 2021. ISBN 9788412331622).
*''El Rapto de Europa - «La gente inteligente, como Sócrates, sabe cada vez menos»'', (Madrid, Calamar Ediciones, 2018. No. 37-38, ISSN 1695-5161).
*''Relatos de la Orilla Negra V. 2018: Clave Binacional Italia Venezuela - «Sobre los tiranos»'', (Caracas, Ediciones La Orilla Negra, 2018. ).
*''Revista Quimera, Nº 401 (Abril de 2017). - «Cuentonario»'', (Dossier de literatura venezolana). ISSN 0211-3325.
*''Relatos de la orilla negra V - «Decir casi lo mismo»'', (Caracas, La Orilla Negra/Lector Cómplice, 2017. ).
*''Encuentros y palabras - «Relato de dragón», «Laura», «Para comenzar primero por lo primario»'', (Salamanca, Edifsa, 2017. ).
*''Nuestros más cercanos parientes'' - «Leerse los gatos», (Madrid, Kalathos, 2016. ).
* ''Cuentos memorables venezolanos'' - «Agnus rey», (Caracas, Planeta, 2015. ).
* ''El rastro de Lovecraft'' - «Un espantapájaros lisiado», (Caracas, Alfaguara/Santillana, 2015. ).
* ''Revista Suelta'' - «La sonrisa de Peter Pan», Guatemala, 2013.
* ''El cuento venezolano - «La mujer de las montañas»'' (Caracas, EBUCV, 2013)
''Los oficios del libro - «La manzana de Nietzsche»'' (Madrid, Libros de la Ballena/UAM, 2011 )
''Río Grande Review #37 - «El alfabeto del profesor Chomsky»'' (El Paso, RGR, 2011)
* ''La vasta brevedad - «Ichbiliah»,'' (Caracas,
Alfaguara
Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Latin America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela.
History and profile
Alfaguara was established in ...
, 2010 )
* ''Revist
Eñe', 17 (Spring 2009).
''Catrusia''
''Las distintas caras de la urbe: Una mirada a la cuentística venezolana de los años 90''in
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ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120316094128/http://www.unco.edu/hss/confluencia/creativeDimension/2008spring/LeerseLosGatos.pdf ''Leerse los gatos''* ''Las voces secretas - «Un ataque de lentitud»,'' (Caracas,
Alfaguara
Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Latin America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela.
History and profile
Alfaguara was established in ...
, 2007 )
* ''21 del XXI - «Ichbiliah»,'' (Caracas,
Ediciones B
Ediciones B is a Spanish publisher, which currently operates as a division of Penguin Random House. Ediciones B is headquartered in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; with branches throughout Latin America. It was established in 1986, but has its origin ...
, 2007 )
* ''Inmenso estrecho - «La mirada de Rousseau»,'' (Madrid, Kailas, 2006 )
* ''Cuentos venezolanos - «Pelópidas»,'' (La Habana, Letras cubanas, 2005 )
* ''Pequeñas resistencias, 3 - «Pelópidas»,'' (Madrid, Páginas de Espuma, 2004 )
* ''Nueva cuentística venezolana: breve inmersión'' in: ''Hispamérica'', #97,
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...
, 2004.
''Homero haciendo'' zapping
Translations into other languages
* English
*
''Ride of the Valkyries''(''Cabalgata de Walkirias'')
Jonathan Blitzer translator
''Words Without Borders'' February 2011.
*
Arabic
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** ''Agnus rey'' & ''Homero haciendo'' zapping. Nedjma Bernaoui, translator. ''Encuentros literarios'', Argel,
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes (the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the government of Spain, Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of ''Don Quixote'' and perhaps the ...
, 2009 NIPO 503090194
* French
** ''Pélopidas''. Gersende Camenen, translator
''Les bonnes nouvelles de l’Amérique latine. Anthologie de la nouvelle latino-américaine contemporaine'' Gallimard, «Du monde entier», 2010
** ''Pélopidas''.
Hélène Rioux
Hélène Rioux (born January 12, 1949) is a French Canadian writer and translator.
She was born in Montreal, Quebec and was educated at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, going on to study Russian at the Université de Montréal. Her stories have be ...
, translator
''Anthologie de récits vénézuéliens contemporains'' Montreal, XYZ, 2009
* Italian
** ''Cabalgata de Walkirias''. Barbara Stizzoli and Antonio Nazzaro, translators
Salerno, Edizioni Arcoiris, 2019.
As editor
*
José Balza: ''Percusión'' (Madrid,
Ediciones Cátedra, 2022) ISBN 978-84-376-4495-0. Juan Carlos Chirinos, editor.
*
Jorge Edwards
Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Piñera presidency.
Life and career
Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile.
Du ...
: ''Persona non grata'' (Caracas, El Estilete, 2017) ISBN 980-778-621-5. (''El rey siempre está desnudo'', foreword).
*
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy.
Born in Ecclefechan, Dum ...
: ''El doctor Francia'' (Sevilla, Renacimiento, 2017) ISBN 841-698-128-0. (''El biógrafo honorable'', foreword).
*
Pablo Acevedo: ''Estrella varada'' (Madrid, Polibea, 2012) ISBN 978-84-86701-45-1. (''Júpiter, melancólico, busca la palabra'', foreword).
*
José Gregorio Hernández
José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros OFS (; 26 October 1864 – 29 June 1919) was a Venezuelan physician. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renowned doctor, more so after his death.Fernández Juárez, Gerardo (2004)''Salud e i ...
: ''Sobre arte y estética'' (Caracas, La Liebre Libre, 1995) ISBN 980-327-270-5. (''José Gregorio Hernández y la filosofía nacional'', foreword).
Awards
*2022. En.-Feb. Resident writer. ''Asociación Cultural La Noria''
Aix-en-Provence
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(
France
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).
*2020. Finalist in the ''XVII Real Academia Española'' Prize, Madrid.
*2018. Finalist in the ''Premio de la Crítica de Venezuela''.
''Cinco finalistas al Premio de la Crítica''.
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International Juan Rulfo Short Story Contest
Radio France Internationale, 2009. Finalist.
*2005. The Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) of México chose ''Albert Einstein, cartas probables para Hann'' for the school reading program.
*2002. First prize, José Antonio Ramos Sucre Literary Biennal, Cumaná, Venezuela.
*2000. The short film, ''3caracoles3'', was chosen for the ''XIV Semana de Cine de Medina del Campo'', Valladolid (Spain).
*1997-1998. Fundación Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Fellowship for doctoral studies in Salamanca University.
*1994. First mention, Short Story Prize, Spain Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela.
About the author
* Katie Brown (University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...
, UK)
''Writing and the Revolution. Venezuelan Metafiction 2004-2012''
Liverpool
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: Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, li ...
. 2019.
* Wilfrido H. Corral
''Venezuela: Biografía de un suicidio by Juan Carlos Chirinos''
in World Literature Today
''World Literature Today'' is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published at the University of Oklahoma. The stated goal of the magazine is to publish international essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and book review ...
, Volume 92 No. 5, September 2018.
* Lyda Aponte de Zacklin (City College of New York, EE.UU.)
''Una parodia del mal''
i
''Revista Cronopio''
#61, July 2013.
* Elda Stanco (Roanoke College, EE.UU.): ''Juan Carlos Chirinos'', i
''The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel. Bolaño and After''
( Will H. Corral, Juan E. De Castro, Nicholas Birns
Nicholas Birns is a scholar of literature, including fantasy and Australian literature. As a Tolkien scholar he has written on a variety of topics including The Scouring of the Shire and Tolkien's biblical sources. His analysis of the writings of A ...
, editors). Bloomsbury, 2013.
* Jonathan Blitzer
''Si estás en Madrid: A Bilingual Anthology''
Musa a las 9/Words Without Borders, 2012.
* Roberto Echeto
''Dos novelas de horror y sangre''
i
''Roberto Echeto presenta...''
01/01/2012.
* Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo (Universidad de Salamanca, España): ''Juan Carlos Chirinos en la tradición literaria del mal'', in: ''Voces y escrituras de Venezuela'', Caracas, Cátedra José Antonio Ramos Sucre, 2011.
*Katie Brown
''Chirinos, Dalí and Ants''
e
''Katie Brown on Culture''
14/12/2011.
* Jorge Eduardo Benavides
''El niño malo en Madrid''
''El Boomerang'', 2010.
* Roberto Echeto
''Un libro en verdad fascinante''
i
''Roberto Echeto presenta...''
11/09/2008.
*José Rafael Simón Pérez: ''El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira'', in ''Letras'', v. 49, n. 75, Caracas, 2007.
References
External links
Official Website
La Mancha
Juan Carlos Chirinos in ''Conocer al autor''
''Jonathan Blitzer on Ride of the Valkyries''
''El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira'' in ''Letras'' (v. 49, #75), Caracas
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080531035213/http://literanova.eduardocasanova.com/index.php/2006/11/01/miranda_el_nomada_sentimental_de_juan_ca ''Miranda, el nómada sentimental'' in ''Literanova''
''Un ataque de lentitud'' included in ''Las voces secretas''
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''Hispamérica'', #97
* Interviews
Interview with Jonathan Blitzer, ''Words Without Borders''
Interview with Elba Escobar, ''Onda, la superestación''
Interview with Álbinson Linares, ''El Nacional'', Caracas
''El Nacional'', Caracas: ''Escribir es un oficio muy burgués''
''Relectura''
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