Jose Balza

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José Balza (Coporito, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, December 17, 1939) is a Venezuelan writer, essayist, critic, and educator.

Biography

He published his first book in 1965, at the age of 26. He was a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and the Andrés Bello Catholic University. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1991.

He has published books on literary theory, plastic arts, film, music, and television. His stories have been translated into Italian, French, English, German and Hebrew. He has given courses, seminars and conferences at universities, among which stand out: the Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Salamanca, the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of New York.

Assiduous contributor to magazines in Latin America, the United States and Europe. In 1984 he hosted the television program Text and Figure , broadcast on channels 5 and 8 in Venezuela and on Channel A, CUNY in New York.

Her novels include: Previous March (1965), Long (1968), Seven hundred palm trees planted in the same place (1974), D (1977), Percussion (1982), Midnight on video: 1/5 (1988), After Caracas (1995) and the short novel A Man of Oil (2008).

Her short story books include: Orderes (1970), An Absolute Face (1982), The Woman on Her Back (1968), The Porous Woman (1996), and The Double Art of Dying (2008); and among the essay books: This narrative sea (1960-87), Initials (1989), Thick mirror (1997), Observations and Aphorisms (2005), Crude Essays (2006). Much of his work has been published by Monte Ávila Editores.

Work

Novel

1965 - March Previous. Tucupita: Lions Club, 1965.
1968 - Go!. Caracas: Monte Ávila, 1968.
1974 - Setecient palm trees planted in the same place. Caracas: Synthesis Dos Mil, 1974.
1977 - D. Caracas: Monte Ávila, 1977
1982 - Percussion. Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1982. New editions in Bogotá: Third World Editors (1991), Caracas: Ayacucho Library (2000), Seville: Paréntesis (2010) and Madrid: Editions Cátedra (2022).
1988 - Midnight in video: 1/5. Mexico: Economic Culture Fund, 1988.
1995 - After Caracas. Caracas: Monte Ávila, 1995. [Second edition corrected by the author for Alfaguara Caracas, (2009)].
2008 - A man of oil. Caracas: Bid fakeCo. Editor, 2007.

Story

1967 - Narrative exercises (First series)
1970 - Orders: narrative exercises 1962-1969
1976 - Narrative exercises
1982 - A Face Absolutely: Narrative Exercises (1970-1980)
1986 - Women behind (Holoographic Exercises)
1989 - The winner: narrative exercises
1996 - The Porous Woman (Narrative Exercises 1986-1996)
1997 - The woman of the rock
1999 - Narrative Breve
2000 - A ghost Orinoco (Edited in Salamanca, Spain)
2001 - The woman of the rock (and other narrative exercises). (Edited in Tenerife, Spain)
2008 - The Double Art of Morir
2010 - The Fire Fish (Retative Exercises)

Essay

1969 - Narrative: instrumental and observations
1969 - Proust
1973 - Transitional reading
1976 - The bodies of sleep
1977 - Alejandro Otero
1981 - Jesus Soto, the child
1982 - Antonio Estévez. Essay
1983 - Analogue, simultaneous
1983 - Transfigurable
1985 - A color too secret
1987 - This narrative sea. Tests on the new body
1987 - The fiero (and sweet) terrestrial instinct
1989 - Initials: announcements of literary theory in Latin America
1993 - Announcements of literary theory in Latin America, 1600-1700
1994 - Invisible essays
1995 - Venezuelan literature today(co-author)
1995 - Narrativa Venezolana attuale(co-author)
1997 - Thin mirror
1997 - Initial: (sixteenth and eighteenth)
2002 - Bolero: Cotton and Bed
2005 - Observations and aphorisms
2006 - Raw trials
2008 - Thinking of Venezuela
2013 - The imaginary centuries
2015 - Essay and sound
2017 - Play B

Selections, compilations, anthologies

1983 - Tales. Anthology. (Edited in La Habana, Cuba)
1989 - The winner (Anthology)
1992 - Narrative exercises. Anthology (Edited in Mexico)
1992 - Three narrative exercises: previous March, Largo, setecient palm trees planted in the same place
2001 - Selected works. Rehearsals. Fulgor de Venezuela
2004 - Selected works. Tales. A ghost Orinoco (story exercises)
2004 - Calligraphies. Narrative Exercises 1960-2005 (Edited in Madrid, Spain)
2013 - Twenty narrative essays and a song (Artepoética Press, New York, United States)
2016 - Traps (political exercises and other accounts): anthology
2020 - City in cities (Rental Exercises). (Edited in Colombia)
2020 - tuning (exercise and test). (La Palma, Madrid, Spain)

As compiler

1984 - The Venezuelan Tale (Anthology)

Essays on José Balza

1989 - Miracles Mata Gil: Balza: the river body.
1990 - Josefina Berrizbeitia: Balza narrator.
1992 - VV. AA. Tribute to José Balza in the magazine Image100-88.
1996 - VV. AA. José Balza. previous March in its 30 years, Central University of Venezuela, Faculty of Humanities and Education.
1997 - Memory and word of the Delta. International Tribute to Writer José Balza. (Universidad de Salamanca).
1997 - Armando Navarro (comp.): Writing as an intelligence exercise.
1999 - Maurice Belrose: Keys to decipher the novelist of José Balza.
2000 - Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo: Fluency and lucidity of a " narrative exercise": A ghost Orinoco.
2008 - Nancy Piñango Sequera: José Balza and the artistic avant-garde.
2014 - Luis Barrera Linares: A delta called Balza.
2016 - Juan Carlos Chirinos. The Universes of the River in Hispanic American Notebooks, 795.
2016 - Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez. Possible image of José Balza in Hispanic American Notebooks, 795.

Awards

VIII International Essay Award Pedro Henríquez Ureña, 2021.
FILCAR Literature Award 2018.
I enter the Venezuelan Academy of the Language as an individual, M. 2014.
Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Catholic University Cecilio Acosta de Maracaibo, 2014.
Tribute to the sixth edition of the Festival de la Lectura de Chacao, Caracas, 2014.
Tribute at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, 2010.
1991 National Literature Award.
Ateneo de Boconó, 1967.

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