Santiago Roncagliolo

Quick Facts

Full Name	Santiago Roncagliolo
Occupation	Linguist
Date Of Birth	Mar 29, 1975(1975-03-29)
Age	49
Birthplace	Lima
Country	Peru
Birth City	Lima Region
Horoscope	Pisces

Santiago Roncagliolo Biography

Santiago Roncagliolo is one of the most popular and richest Linguist who was born on March 29, 1975 in Lima, Lima Region, Peru. Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann (born on March 29 1975) is a Peruvian screenwriter, writer journalist, translator, and translator. His work includes five novels on fear. He is also the author of an entire trilogy of non-fiction works on the Latin American twentieth century.

In 2010, he was voted in 2010 by British publication Granta to be one of the the 22 top writers in Spanish younger than 35 years old.

In English, he has also published a collection of black humour short stories: Hi, this is Conchita (2013), as most of his work, is translated by Edith Grossman, who has worked with the best Hispanic authors from Cervantes to Gabriel García Márquez.

In 2014, Roncagliolo published La Pena Máxima, a new adventure of fiscal Felix Chacaltana, star of Red April, set in the 1978 World Cup during the Argentinian dictatorship. That year, The Wall Street Journal named him one of six authors following in the footsteps of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The book, which is non-fiction, Memorias de una Dama (2009) describes his time as a ghostwriter to the daughters of an influential Dominican family that had roots in mafia, fascism as well as Caribbean dictatorships. However, the family decided to censor the book. It was taken off the shelves , and even today the author is not allowed to discuss it.

Santiago Roncagliolo Net Worth

Santiago Roncagliolo is one of the richest Linguist from Peru. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Santiago Roncagliolo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Roncagliolo was a dreamer of becoming writer. In Lima the writer was asked to write books for children as well as plays while working at the Human Rights Commission, until 2000 when he flew into Madrid determined to achieve his goal. He worked as ghostwriter, and obtained an official residence, along with an agreement to clean the house. According to the author: “I went to Spain to be a writer, in the wake of the Latin Americans who had triumphed in Europe, such as Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa or Jose Donoso. I soon realized losers far outnumber the winners, but no one knows their stories. In honor of all those martyrs of literature, I decided to write the story of a loser”. The result was that Roncagliolo ended up becoming an author in Spain. He lives in Barcelona.

In 2006, his work Red April won the Alfaguara Prize novel. In English the novel was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been translated into more than 20 languages.

The Uruguayan lover (2012) is the story of writer Enrique Amorim: millionaire but communist, homosexual but married, Uruguayan but Argentinian, he was a fascinating impostor who shared secrets with the best artists of 20th century: Pablo Neruda, Charles Chaplin or Pablo Picasso. He was in love with Federico García Lorca and even hinted that he had buried the remains of the Granada poet. The Uruguayan lover culminates with La Cuarta Espada and Memorias de una dama, a trilogy of true stories about Latin American twentieth century.

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Santiago Ranked on the list of most popular Linguist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Peru. Santiago Roncagliolo celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.