Paul Pen

Paul Pen is a Spanish author of literary fiction, thriller and suspense. His first novel, El aviso, earned him the title of Fnac New Talent in 2011 [1] and has been translated into German, Italian and English. This debut was described as "outstanding" by Babelia, the cultural section of Spanish newspaper El País.[2] In 2013, he released his second novel, El brillo de las luciérnagas (Plaza y Janés), published in English by AmazonCrossing in April 2016, translated by Simon Bruni. He has also published some fifteen short stories, some of them appearing in men's magazines such as NOX and Don. In 2017, his third novel La casa entre los cactus (Desert Flowers) was published internationally in many languages, as it happened in 2019 with his subsequent novel Un matrimonio perfecto (Under the Water).

Film and TV

Most of Pen's novels are being or have been adapted for the big screen. The film adaptation of his first novel El aviso was released on Netflix in July 2018 as The Warning. Jorge Guerricaechevarría penned the Spanish script with revisions by Chris Sparling.[3] and Chris Rossi.

As for his second novel, Alberto Marini penned the script for El brillo de las luciérnagas[4] movie, still in production by Morena Films.

La casa entre los cactus (Desert Flowers) is also in production, the script written by Paul Pen himself.

In his capacity as scriptwriter, Paul Pen is also working on a forthcoming Netflix Spanish series.

Bibliography

Novels
TitlePublication datePublisher
El avisoJune 2011RBA Libros
Il presagioOctober 2011Newton Compton Editori
9 - Die WiederkehrFebruary 2013Heyne Verlag (Penguin Random House Germany)
El brillo de las luciérnagasMay 2013Plaza y Janés (Penguin Random House Spain)
The Light of the FirefliesApril 2016AmazonCrossing
La casa entre los cactusJune 2017Plaza y Janés (Penguin Random House Spain)
Desert FlowersAugust 2017AmazonCrossing
Un matrimonio perfecto May 2019 Plaza y Janés (Penguin Random House Spain)
Under the Water October 2019 AmazonCrossing

Short stories
TitlePublishedNotes
Una escena matrimonial del todo insólita"Visiones 2007" (AECFT)Winner of III Certamen Internacional La cerilla mágica.
OTELRHM FLASH (Penguin Random House Spain)Also published in men's magazine Revista Don.
La sangre del muertoRHM FLASH (Penguin Random House Spain)

Collections
  • Trece historias (2015)

References
  1. "Nuevo talento Fnac Paul Pen - ClubCultura". clubcultura.com. Archived from the original on 2014-11-04.
  2. Ediciones El País. "Explicar de más es siempre un riesgo". EL PAÍS.
  3. John Hopewell. "Morena Films: Thinking Outside the Box". Variety.
  4. "Paul Pen presentó en Ávila su libro "El brillo de las luciérnagas"". diariodeavila.es.
  • Official web
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