María Zaragoza

María Zaragoza is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter, known for her lush and atmospheric prose. She has published around a dozen works, including novels, comics, short story collections, and young adult fiction, and has received several awards, among them the Ateneo Joven de Sevilla and Ateneo Ciudad de Valladolid prizes. In 2022, she won the Azorín Novel Prize for her novel La biblioteca de fuego (The Library of Fire). Her work has been translated into several languages. Her first venture into screenwriting was Cuentas divinas, which was nominated in 2024 for a Goya Award for Best Fiction Short Film.