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Stefania Mosca was a Venezuelan writer, born in Caracas in 1957. Her work addressed the essay, the chronicle, the story and the novel. She graduated in Literature at the Central University of Venezuela and did postgraduate studies on scholarship at the Ortega y Gasset International Studies Foundation, at the Institute of Ibero-American Cooperation, in Toledo, with Fernando Rodríguez La Fuente and Joaquín Rubio. He has a Master's degree in Latin American Literature from Simón Bolívar University.1 Among his books are Memory and oblivion (1986), Everyday Things (1990), Banales (1993), My Little World (1996), Booklet No. 69 (2001), Maternity (2004), and The Circus of Ferdinand (2006). Mosca was akin to the political project of Hugo Chávez and worked in several institutions of the Venezuelan State. She was assistant editor of Monte Ávila Editores and of the National Academy of History, Director of Collections Development of the National Library, editor of the Tierra de Gracia Foundation, representative of the narrative area at Casa de Bello, president of the Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho and Minister Counselor of the Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the Organization of American States. He also taught, in 1993, when he was part of the Department of Humanities of the Metropolitan University of Caracas. In 2008, she was the author honored at the International Book Fair of Venezuela. Since her student years she was a collaborator of some Venezuelan newspapers. He published texts in El Espectador de Colombia and La Jornada and El Universal de México, in the magazines Quimera, INTI and Gatopardo.2 In his last years, he frequently collaborated in media financed by the government of Hugo Chávez, in which he expressed his support for the Chavista project on controversial issues such as the closure of the RCTV channel, the referendum on constitutional reform, in 2007; and the referendum that modified the constitution to allow the indefinite re-election of the President of the Republic and other popularly elected authorities in 2009.3 He died on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, victim of cancer. In 2010, the Mayor's Office of Caracas, through the Foundation for Culture and the Arts (Fundarte), opened the call for the National Literature Prize Stefania Mosca,Additional Products