Boris Muñoz (21 May 1969 in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as 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 ...

), is a Venezuelan journalist and author of several books, including "La ley de la calle, testimonios de jóvenes protagonistas de la violencia en Caracas" (Fundarte 1995), "Más allá de la ciudad letrada, Crónicas y espacios urbanos" (University of Pittsburgh Press) and "Despachos del imperio" (

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2007). Muñoz was Editor-in-chief of "Exceso" magazine. He contributes regularly to magazines and web supported media in Latin America. Boris Muñoz is
fellow at the Nieman Foundation
for Journalism at Harvard. He is a Ph.D in Hispanic American Literature from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...

. Author of several books, including "La ley de la calle, testimonios de jóvenes protagonistas de la violencia en Caracas" (Fundarte, 1995) and "Despachos del imperio" (2008). He co-edited with Silvia Spitta "Más allá de la ciudad letrada, Crónicas y espacios urbanos"
University of Pittsburgh Press
2003). In 2000 he received the Fellowship of the Humanities Institute at

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Ω and the First Accésit of the in Madrid. He was and Editor-in-Chief o
Nueva Sociedad
and Editorial Director of "Exceso" magazine, and contributes regularly to "Gatopardo" magazine, an
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References

External links

1
Los malditos: Rafael José Muñoz, poeta, guerrillero, metafísico, mi padre, por Boris Muñoz. El Puercoespín (December, 2011). Spanish.
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