María LARREA

María Larrea was born in Bilbao in 1979 and grew up in Paris. She studied Film at the University of Paris 8 and Directing at the French national film school, La Femis. She graduated in 2006 and directed several short films and adverts. She works as a screenwriter and is currently contributing to several feature film productions, especially in genre cinema (ongoing collaboration with Dario Argento). Her first novel was published in France by Grasset in 2022 and in Spain by Alianza in 2023: Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren. The novel won several awards in France (first novel award, France Télévisions Novel Award, Inrockuptibles Award) and won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize in Spain as part of the Gijón Semana Negra festival. The novel, translated into six languages, will be adapted for the theatre in Paris in autumn 2024 with Bérénice Bejo and its film adaptation is in progress with Estrella Productions. She worked on the compilation book for the Olympic Games Je me souviens ... de la foulée de Pérec for Seuil publishers with a story on Carl Lewis at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. She wrote for the theatre on the occasion of the Paris des Femmes Festival with the monologue Las noches con mi padre.

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