Lorenzo Silva

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Lorenzo Silva (2007)

Lorenzo Silva (born June 7, 1966 in Carabanchel , Madrid ) is a Spanish writer of crime fiction and children's books.

Life

Lorenzo Silva grew up in Madrid and studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid . He worked as a lawyer until 2002 and since then as a writer.

The novel La flaqueza del Bolchevique , written in 1995, was nominated for the Nadal Literature Prize in 1997, the book was filmed in 2004 and the screenplay was nominated for the Goya Film Prize. The English translation was published in 2013, the end of the stalker topic is not for the faint-hearted reader, judged the Spain expert Julius Purcell.

In 2000, Silva received the Nadal Literature Prize for El alquimista impaciente . The book was made into a film in 2002. Civil Guard officers Sergeant Rubén Bevilacqua and Corporal Virginia Chamorro appear in the novel , who also appear in other novels and have become a brand in Spain. Silva was finally offered honorary membership of the Guardia Civil in 2010. Silva also received the Ojo Crítico Prize in 1998, the Primavera Prize in 2004 and the Algaba Prize in 2010. In 2012 Silva received the Premio Planeta for the seventh volume La marca del meridiano in the Bevilacqua series .

Silva has also been writing children's books since the beginning and also writes on literary theoretical and social issues.

Works (selection)

Novels, short stories
  • Noviembre sin violetas . 1995
  • La sustancia interior . 1996
  • La flaqueza del bolchevique . 1997
  • El lejano país de los estanques . 1998 (Bevilacqua)
    • Deadly Beach: Novel A Mallorca crime thriller. Translation Claudia Wuttke. Munich: Goldmann, 2003 ISBN 3-442-45629-0
  • El ángel oculto. Destino . 1999
  • El urinario . 1999
  • El alquimista impaciente . 2000 (Bevilacqua)
  • El nombre de los nuestros . 2001
  • La isla del fin de la suerte . 2001
  • La niebla y la doncella . 2001 (Bevilacqua)
  • Carta blanca. Espasa Calpa . 2002
  • El déspota adolescente . 2003
  • Nadie vale más que otro: Cuatro asuntos de Bevilacqua . 2004
  • La reina sin espejo . 2005 (Bevilacqua)
  • Muerte en el "reality show" . 2007
  • The blog of the inquisidor . 2008
  • The strategy of agua . (Bevilacqua)
  • Niños feroces . 2011
  • La marca del meridiano . 2012 (Bevilacqua)
  • Los cuerpos extraños . 2014 (Bevilacqua)
  • Donde los escorpiones . 2016 (Bevilacqua)
Books for children and young readers
  • Algún día, cuando pueda llevarte a Varsovia . 1997
  • El cazador del desierto . 1998
  • La lluvia de París . 2000
  • Laura and the corazon de las cosas . 2002
  • Los amores lunáticos . 2002
  • With Violeta Monreal: Pablo y los malos . 2006
  • La isla del tesoro . To Treasure Island . 2007
  • Mi primer libro sobre Albéniz . 2008
  • Albéniz, el pianista aventurero . 2008
  • El videojuego al revés . 2009
  • with Noemí Trujillo: Suad . 2013
general literature
  • Viajes escritos y escritos viajeros . 2000
  • Del Rif al Yebala: Viaje al sueño y la pesadilla de Marruecos . 2001
  • Líneas de sombra: Historias de criminales y policías . 2005
  • En tierra extraña, en tierra propia: Anotaciones de viaje . 2006
  • With Luis Miguel Francisco: Y al final, la guerra: La aventura de los soldados españoles en Irak . 2006
  • El Derecho en la obra de Kafka: una aproximación fragmentaria . 2008
  • With Manuel Martín Cuenca: La flaqueza del bolchevique . Script and texts for the film. 2008
  • Sereno en el peligro: La aventura histórica de la Guardia Civil . 2010
  • Los trabajos y los días . 2012
  • Todo suena . 2012
  • Siete ciudades en África: Historia del Marruecos español . 2013

literature

  • Julio Peñate Rivero: Trayectorias de la novela policial en España: Francisco González Ledesma y Lorenzo Silva . Madrid: Visor Libros, 2010 (not viewed)
  • El derecho en la obra de Lorenzo Silva . Cizur Menor: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2015 (not accessed)
  • Renée Craig-Odders: Sin, Redemption and the New Generation of Detective Fiction in Spain: Lorenzo Silva's Bevilacqua series , University of Wisconsin, at CUNY
  • Renée W. Craig-Odders: Shades of green: the police procedural in Spain , in: Renée W. Craig-Odders (Ed.): Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian detective fiction: essays on the "género negro" tradition . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006, pp. 103-122

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Purcell: The stalker's view , review, in: Financial Times , February 28, 2015, p. 11
  2. ↑ Carles Geli: Los guardias civiles de Lorenzo Silva ganan el Planeta , in: El País , October 16, 2012 (es)
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer of crime novels and children's books
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Carabanchel , Madrid