Ednodio Quintero

Ednodio Quintero was born in 1947 in Las Mesitas, Trujillo, in the Venezuelan Andes. Since 1965, he has lived in Mérida, Venezuela, where he moved to study Forestry and where he has taught at the university for many years as a professor of Letters and Audiovisual Media. His fiction has been recognized with the most prestigious literary prizes granted in his country. He is the author of the short story collections La muerte viaje a caballo (1974), Volveré con mis perros (1975), El agresor cotidiano (1978), La línea de la vida (1988), Cabeza de cabra y otros relatos (1993), El combate (1995), and El corazón ajeno (2000), as well as the novels La danza del jaguar (1991), La bailarina de Kachgar (1991), El rey de las ratas (1994), El cielo de Ixtab (1995), Lección de física (2000), Mariana y los comanches (Candaya, 2004), and Confesiones de un perro muerto (2006). He is also the author of the essay collections De narrativa y narradores (1996) and Visiones de un narrador (1997) and the screenplays of Rosa de los vientos (1975) and Cubagua (1987). (Biography: Editorial Candaya)