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Santiago Roncagliolo is a Peruvian writer, journalist, and screenwriter based in Barcelona who has enjoyed wide recognition in both the literary and audiovisual worlds for decades.
In the audiovisual field, Roncagliolo served as creator and consulting producer of the television series El túnel for Tondero. He also wrote the screenplay for La pena máxima, a feature film based on his novel of the same title, and created a series project based on another of his novels, Abril rojo. Another of his novels, Pudor, was adapted for the big screen and nominated for the Biznaga de Oro at the Málaga Film Festival. His most recent screenwriting projects include Muxes and Sutura.
In his literary career, Roncagliolo is especially known for his suspense novels and dark humor, often grounded in rigorous historical research. He is also the author of children’s books, which have received several awards and strong critical acclaim.
As a journalist, he is the author of a trilogy of true stories about twentieth-century Hispanic America: The Fourth Sword, The Uruguayan Lover, and Memoirs of a Lady, considered “the last censored trilogy in Latin America.”
Roncagliolo’s works have been widely praised by critics and translated into more than a dozen languages. Today, he is regarded as a key reference in contemporary Spanish-language literature.
Among the awards he has received for his literary career are the Alfaguara Prize, the White Raven Award, the Silver Caravel, London’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Best Translated Novel, and the El Barco de Vapor Children’s Literature Prize.
