Camilo Pino La Corte is a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n novelist. He was born in

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 1970, the son of historian Elias Pino Iturrieta. He is the author o
Crema Paraíso
(Alianza, 2020)
Mandrágora
(SED, 2017) an
Valle Zamuro
(Pre-Textos an
Punto Cero
2011). Pino studied journalism 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 ...

and communications at the

University of Westminster The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Po ...

. He also studied poetry at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos. In 1986, Pino founded the magazine ''Al Encuentro''. In 2010 he was awarded the Carolina Coronado Prize for literature in Venezuela for his

debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ...

''Valle Zamuro''. In evaluating the work, Spanish novelist

Almudena Grandes María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández (7 May 1960 – 27 November 2021) was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won t ...

said, " inohas debuted with an extraordinary and splendid work" which has ".
changed the way I read novels
" A selected group of Venezuelan intellectuals and writers included Valle Zamuro in th
Prodavinci.com
list of ten bes
books of the year 2011
Pino currently lives in Miami, Florida, where he develops literary adaptations for television.

References

External links

Crema Paraíso reviewed by Hernán Vera in Latin American Literature Today
2021.

Interview by Nelson Rivera. Papel Literario de El Nacional. July, 2020 (Spanish).

Review of Crema Paraíso
by Federico Vegas. Prodavinci, 2020. Spanish.
Interview by Leaticia Rovecchio Antón. Pliego Suelto. July, 2020.

Sandra Caula reviews Crema Paraíso for Cinco8.

- ttp://issuu.com/emmanuelcc/docs/claro210 Interview by Jaime Bello León. Revista Claro (Nr. 210, 2011). Spanish. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pino, Camilo 1970 births Alumni of the University of Westminster Venezuelan novelists Venezuelan male novelists Living people Writers from Caracas Hispanic and Latino American writers Hispanic and Latino American novelists