# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francisco-massiani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:47:02.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francisco-massiani"
name: "Francisco Massiani"
slug: "francisco-massiani"
description: "Francisco Massiani 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, 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."
tagline: "Writer from Venezuela (1944-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco_massiani.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1944-04-02"
deathDate: "2018-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.3
  momentum:             0.8823529411764705
  historical:           5.477358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francisco Massiani"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Massiani"
    title: "Francisco Massiani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Massiani"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "فرانسسکو مسیانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Massiani"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Massiani"
    title: "Francisco Massiani"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3081894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump