Santiago Roncagliolo

Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima, 1975) is the youngest author ever to be awarded the "Alfaguara" prize. His previous novel, "Pudor" ("Shame"), received positive reviews from critics and audiences throughout the Spanish-speaking world, has been translated into several languages, and is set to be adapted into a film. A screenwriter, playwright, children's book author, translator, ghostwriter, and journalist, he currently collaborates with various publications in Latin America and the newspaper "El País" in Spain, and also writes daily on the blog www.elboomeran.com.