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(Caracas, 1981)

Escritor venezolano.
Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Una larga fila de hombres (Monte Ávila, 2005), Los Invencibles (Random House Mondadori, 2007), Las rayas (Punto Cero, 2011), Emuntorios (El Malpensante, 2018) y Los terneros (Páginas de Espuma, 2018). Por sus cuentos ha recibido diversos reconocimientos dentro y fuera de Venezuela. En 2007 fue seleccionado por el Hay Festival para formar parte de la primera edición de Bogotá 39. En 2013 fue escritor invitado del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa.

En 2016 publicó su primera novela, The Night, en la editorial Alfaguara, de España, con una excelente recepción que le ha valido elogiosas críticas, diversas traducciones y varias distinciones: Premio «Rive ...more

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	Simpatía 3.44 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Goodreads Author), Daniel Hahn (Translator), Noel Hernández González (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los terneros 3.29 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las rayas 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Venecos (Voces / Literatura nº 371) (Spanish Edition) 3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una larga fila de hombres 3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Los invencibles 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	McSweeney's Emunctories (McSweeney's #46) by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Goodreads Author), Daniel Gumbiner (Translator), Mark Ashby (Narrator) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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