Rodrigo Blanco Calerón has received awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In 2007 he was invited to join the Bogotá39 group, which brings together the best Latin American writers under forty years old. In 2014 his story “Emuntorios” was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, issue 46 of McSweeneys. With his first novel, The Night, he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela, and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize.