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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. BiographyCatalina 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
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