Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (born 1981) is a Venezuelan writer from Caracas. He completed his doctorate in literature and linguistics from Paris XIII University with a dissertation on the work of his literary mentor, Venezuelan writer Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez. He has published several collections of stories, among them Una larga fila de hombres, Los Invencibles, Las rayas and Los terneros. He has also published two novels, The Night (Seven Stories Press, 2022) and Simpatía (Seven Stories Press, 2024), both translated into English by Daniel Hahn and Noel Hernández González. A translation of his short story 'Payaso' (Clown) appears in the…

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