Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador (born on 7 June 1966 in Carabanchel, Madrid) is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002.
He has written stories, articles and literary essays, but he is recognised primarily for his novels. One such novel, El alquimista impaciente, won the Nadal Prize in 2000. This is the second novel in which two of his best known characters, the Guardia Civil agents Sargento Bevilacqua and Cape Chamorro, make an appearance. Another of his novels, La flaqueza del bolchevique, was the runner-up for the prize in 1997 and has been adapted to a movie by Manuel Martín Cuenca.
Works
- Noviembre sin violetas (1995)
- La sustancia interior (1996)
- La flaqueza del bolchevique (Ediciones Destino, Barcelona, 1997). Finalista del Premio Nadal 1997.
- Algún día, cuando pueda llevarte a Varsovia (1997)
- El lejano país de los estanques (1998). Premio El Ojo Crítico 1998.
- El cazador del desierto (1998)
- El ángel oculto (Ediciones Destino, Barcelona, 1999)
- El urinario (Pre-Textos, Valencia, 1999)
- Viajes escritos y escritos viajeros (2000)
- El alquimista impaciente (2000). Premio Nadal
- La lluvia de París (2000)
- Del Rif al Yebala. Viaje al sueño y la pesadilla de Marruecos (2001)
- El nombre de los nuestros (2001)
- La isla del fin de la suerte (2001)
- Laura y el corazón de las cosas (2002)
- La niebla y la doncella (2002)
- Los amores lunáticos (2002)
- El déspota adolescente (Destino, Barcelona, 2003), relatos.
- Carta blanca (2004) Premio Primavera de Novela
- Nadie vale más que otro, cuatro asuntos de Bevilacqua (2004)
- Líneas de sombra (2005)
- La reina sin espejo (2005)
- En tierra extraña, en tierra propia (2006)
- Pablo y los malos (2006)
- Y al final, la guerra. La aventura de las tropas españolas en Irak (2006)
- El blog del inquisidor (2008)
External links
- Writer's home page
- Forum about the writer
- La flaqueza del bolchevique (fragment and review)
- La sustancia interior (fragment and review)
- Interview of Lorenzo Silva in Anika Entre Libros
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