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.

The House Among the Cactuses, with the screenplay written by Paul Pen himself, will premiere in September 2022.^[4]

In his capacity as scriptwriter, Paul Pen also collaborated in the supernatural thriller The Girl in the Mirror.

Bibliography

Novels

Title	Publication date	Publisher
El aviso	June 2011	RBA Libros [es]
Il presagio	October 2011	Newton Compton Editori
9 - Die Wiederkehr	February 2013	Heyne Verlag (Penguin Random House Germany)
El brillo de las luciérnagas	May 2013	Plaza y Janés [es] (Penguin Random House Spain)
The Light of the Fireflies	April 2016	AmazonCrossing
La casa entre los cactus	June 2017	Plaza y Janés [es] (Penguin Random House Spain)
Desert Flowers	August 2017	AmazonCrossing
Un matrimonio perfecto	May 2019	Plaza y Janés (Penguin Random House Spain)
Under the Water	October 2019	AmazonCrossing

Short stories

Title	Published	Notes
Una escena matrimonial del todo insólita	"Visiones 2007" (AECFT [es])	Winner of III Certamen Internacional La cerilla mágica.
OTEL	RHM FLASH (Penguin Random House Spain)	Also published in men's magazine Revista Don.
La sangre del muerto	RHM 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. "RTVE.es estrena el tráiler de 'La casa entre los cactus', un thriller con Ariadna Gil, Daniel Grao y Ricardo Gómez". rtve.es. 17 August 2022.

External links

• Official web [1]