Catalina Murillo

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

Catalina Murillo
Born
Catalina Murillo Valverde

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

Biography

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 and La pensión.[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, for which she received the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award 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
  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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