Santiago Roncagliolo
Roncagliolo was born in Lima, and his family temporarily left Peru for political reasons in 1977. His novel Pudor (2005) was made into a film and his political thriller Abril rojo received the Alfaguara Prize in 2006 and is published in English as Red April (2010). Memorias de una dama (2009), tracing the origins of the Mafia in Cuba, was censored and its publication is prohibited throughout the entire world. His latest novel La Pena Máxima (2014), is set in the 78 World Cup during the Argentinian dictatorship. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2010, he was chosen as one of Granta‘s Best Young Spanish Language Novelists.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Guadalupe Nettel | Best Untranslated Writers
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘When I met her, I kept thinking: is she looking at me? Or rather, is she looking inside me?’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid
Various Contributors
‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
After the Olympics Left
Various Contributors
‘Once I came home at the end of August, it was as if nothing had ever happened. Indeed, nothing had.‘
Fiction | The Online Edition
Santa Claus is in the Living Room
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘I soon understood that if I wanted to get my father back I was going to have to help him get rid of the competition.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117
Deng’s Dogs
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘My earliest memory of Peru is a newspaper photograph from 1980 of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts in downtown Lima.’
In Conversation | Issue 117
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Special
Santiago Roncagliolo & Nell Freudenberger
‘Santiago Roncagliolo seems utterly unconcerned with whether we like his two characters, and (as in life) that fact makes them irresistible.’
In Conversation | Issue 117
Carlos Yushimito and Santiago Roncagliolo In Conversation
Carlos Yushimito & Santiago Roncagliolo
‘We shouldn’t just study people through their archives, but also by being witness to their dreams.’
Fiction | Issue 113
Stars and Stripes
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘He chewed on the syllables until they sounded the way they did in movies.’