Antonio Ortuño (Guadalajara, 1976) is a fiction writer, scriptwriter and columnist. He has published twenty books including novels, short stories, fiction for children and young adults, and essays. Some of his best-known works are the novels Recursos humanos (made into a film by the director Jesús Magaña in 2023), La fila india, Olinka, La Armada Invencible and the stories of La vaga ambición. He has been winner of the 5th Ribera del Duero Prize, the 1st Nellie Campobello Ibero-American Fine Arts Prize and the Cuatrogatos Prize for youth literature. He was selected as writer-in-residence in Berlin by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the period 2018-2019. His works have been translated into ten languages. He has been a member of the Mexican National Network of Artists since 2013. He has contributed to publications such as The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique and Clarín. He is currently a columnist for the Spanish newspaper El País. He was listed as one of the 25 best young Spanish-language writers, as selected by the British magazine Granta (2010).
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