Sergio del Molino participates in a literary gathering at La Nau

  • Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society
  • February 13th, 2020
 
Sergio del Molino.
Sergio del Molino.

A journalist and writer Sergio del Molino, born in Madrid in 1979, participated in a literary gathering Writing From the Void and the Edge on 12th February together with Cristina García Pascual, a head of the Literature Club of the Universitat de València.

Sergio del Molino is an author of The Violet Hour (pubished in Spanish by Literatura Random House in 2013), a novel which brought him el Ojo Crítico Award for Narrative 2013, given by the Spanish National Radio (RNE), and Tigre Juan Award 2013, and which was translated in various languages. Ever since his literary debut in 2009, he published a collection of short stories Malas Influencias (Bad Influences) in 2009, a literary essay Soldados en el Jardín de la Paz (Soldiers in the Garden of Peace) in 2009, an anthology of his personal journalist articles El Restaurante Favorito de Nina Hagen (A Favourite Restaurant of Nina Hagen) in 2011, his first novel No Habrá Más Enemigo (No More Enemies) in 2012, the novel Lo Que a Nadie le Importa (What Nobody Cares About) in 2014, the essay La España Vacía (The Empty Spain) in 2016 which brought him Libreros de Madrid 2016 award for the best essay; the novel La Mirada de los Peces (The Look of Fish) in 2017; and the essay Lugares Fuera de Sitio (Outside Places) which received Espasa 2018 award, and the novel Calomarde in 2020.

A journalist by education and by vocation, Sergio del Molino has been a news reporter for ten years and is currently collaborating with various media channels, both journals and magazines as well as radio and television. In 2005, he received a Young Literature Award of the Government of Aragón, the community where he currently lives. In 2013, the magazine El Cultural of the journal El Mundo chose him as one of the twelve most successful Spanish storytellers under 40 years old.