Venecos - by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon (Paperback)

About the Book

In the RAE's Dictionary of Americanisms, "veneco" is defined as a derogatory and popular adjective referring to Venezuelans. These stories propose a descent and a labyrinth of journeys, encounters, and disagreements on shores that become a fractured dialogue. Airplanes, airports, cities, people... small and large stories that coexist with us because they are part of an everyday epic, or a dream worthy of movies. And all this searching, this estrangement, is what can also be read in the inner story of more than eight million Venezuelans who have left their country and seek the next encounter, between epic and dream.

About the Author

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, narrador venezolano, ha publicado las novelas The Night (Premio III Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa, Prix Rive Gauche à Paris, Premio de la Crítica en Venezuela) y Simpatía (incluida en la longlist del International Booker Prize 2024). Como cuentista ha publicado Una larga fila de hombres (2005), Los invencibles (2007), Las rayas (2011) y Los terneros (Editorial Páginas de Espuma, 2018). En 2023, obtuvo el O. Henry Prize con su relato «Los locos de París» («The Mad People of Paris» en traducción de Thomas Bunstead). Sus libros han sido traducidos a una decena de idiomas. Actualmente vive en Málaga.