Juan Carlos Chirinos (Valera, Venezuela 1967) is a novelist, short story writer, biographer, essayist, playwright and teacher of creative writing. Graduated in Literature in Caracas, he carried out doctoral studies at the University of Salamanca. He made his debut with the novel El niño malo cuenta hasta tres (2004), followed by Nochebosque (2011), Gemelas (2013), Los cielos de curumo (2019), finalist of the Real Academia Española award (2020) and Renacen las sombras ( 2021).
He has published various collections of short stories: Leerse los gatos (1997), awarded by the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela; Homero haciendo «zapping» (2003), Bienal Ramos Sucre prize; Los sordos trilingües (2011), La manzana de Nietzsche (2015) and La sonrisa de los hipopótamos (2020).
He is the author of the following biographies: Alejandro Magno, el vivo anhelo de conocer (2004), Albert Einstein, cartas probables para Hann (2004), La reina de los cuatro nombres: Olimpia, mother de Alejandro Magno (2005) and Miranda, el nómada sentimental (2006). With the essay Venezuela, biografía de un suicidio (2017), he offers the European public an interpretation of Venezuelan history from a socioliterary perspective.