Jesús Miguel Soto is a
Venezuelan
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writer. He was born in
El Valle,
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
in 1981. He studied at the
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to:
Places
* Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Universidad (Madrid)
Football clubs
* Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
...
. Since 2014, he has lived in
Mexico City
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where he works as a teacher and editor. He is known for his short story collection ''Perdidos en Frog'' (2013) and the novels ''La máscara de cuero'' and ''El caso Boeuf''. He has won a number of literary prizes at home and abroad, and in 2017, he was selected as one of the
Bogota39, a list of the best young writers in
Latin America
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.
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References
Living people
21st-century Venezuelan writers
Venezuelan male writers
1981 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
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