Catalina Murillo Valverde (born 6 June 1970) is a Costa Rican author and screenwriter, winner of the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award [es] in 2018 for her novel Maybe Managua.

Catalina Murillo
Born
Catalina Murillo Valverde

(1970-06-06) 6 June 1970 (age 54)
San José, Costa Rica
Education
OccupationWriter
Notable workMaybe Managua
AwardsAquileo J. Echeverría Award [es] (2018)

Biography

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Catalina Murillo Valverde was born in a taxi in San José on 6 June 1970.[1]

She attended college at the Liceo Franco Costarricense. She studied collective communication sciences at the University of Costa Rica and screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She worked as a screenwriter on the Costa Rican television series El barrio [es] and La pensión [es].[2]

At age 28 she emigrated to Madrid, Spain. She lived there for a decade, working as a film and television screenwriter, and as an analyst and screenwriting tutor. She has been a juror and script reader for contests and festivals such as Oaxaca Sundance, Ibermedia, the Costa Rica International Book Fair, and the Guadalajara International Book Fair.[3] She was a juror at the 2018 San José shnit international shortfilmfestival.[4]

She has published Largo Domingo Cubano (1995), Marzo todopoderoso (2003), Corredoiras y Largo Domingo Cubano (2017), and Tiembla, Memoria (2017).[5] In 2018, she published Maybe Managua through Uruk Editores [es], for which she received the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award [es] for best novel, shared with the work Mierda by Carla Pravisani.[6]

She is currently a script consultant and teacher at Fuentetaja Workshops, as well as a thesis tutor at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).

References

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  1. ^ "Catalina Murillo" (in Spanish). Uruk Editores. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ Montero, María (26 September 2003). "Setiembre todopoderoso" [September Almighty]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Programa de eventos 2018" (in Spanish). Guadalajara International Book Fair. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  4. ^ Quesada Webb, Armando (20 September 2018). "Conozca al jurado nacional del shnit 2018" [Meet the National Jury of shnit 2018]. deleFOCO (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. ^ Rojas, Margarita (11 November 2017). "Novela 'Tiembla, memoria', de Catalina Murillo: Amor y consciencia" [Novel 'Tiembla, memoria', by Catalina Murillo: Love and Conscience]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud presentó galardonados de los Premios Nacionales de Cultura 2018" [Ministry of Culture and Youth Presents Winners of the 2018 National Culture Awards]. El Mundo (in Spanish). San José. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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