Santiago Díaz

Santiago Díaz Cortés (Madrid, 1971), a film and television scriptwriter with a career spanning twenty-five years and nearly six hundred scripts written, published his first novel, Talión, in 2018, which won the Morella Negra Prize and the Benjamín de Tudela Prize in 2019. In 2021, El buen padre (The Good Father) was published, the novel with which he started the series starring the inspector Indira Ramos and which has been translated into several languages. This has been followed by Las otras niñas (2022) and Indira (2023), the latest instalment in the series and winner of the Alicante Noir 2023 Award. Santiago Díaz has also successfully cultivated juvenile literature and won the Premio Jaén de Narrativa Juvenil for Taurus: Salvar la tierra (2021). The Nine Kingdoms (Los nueve reinos) is his latest book and his first historical novel.

 

AUTHOR’S AWARDS:

• Talión – (2019) Morella Negra Award
• Talión – (2019) Benjamín de Tudela Award
• Taurus: Saving the Earth – (2021) Jaén Youth Fiction Award
• Indira – (2023) Alicante Noir Award