Catalina Murillo Valverde (born 6 June 1970) is a Costa Rican author and screenwriter, winner of the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize in 2018 for her novel Maybe Managua.
Catalina Murillo Valverde was born in a taxi in San José on 6 June 1970.
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.
[5] In 2018, she published Maybe Managua through Uruk Editores [es], for which she received the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize for best novel, shared with the work Mierda by Carla Pravisani.
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).