His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller since its publication.

It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas.

[2][3] Massiani, won the Municipal Prize of Prose in 1998, and in 2005, the V annual contest of the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana (Foundation for the Urban Culture), for the storybook Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer.

[4] In 2012 he won the National Prize for Literature, as a recognition to his entire body of work.

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