Authors Luisgé Martín

Madrid, 1962. Has an undergraduate degree in Spanish from Madrid's Complutense University in addition to an MBA. His publications include short story compilations: Los oscuros [The dark ones] (Alfaguara, 1990) and El alma del erizo [The soul of the hedgehog] (Alfaguara, 2002), novels: La dulce ira [Sweet rage] (Alfaguara, 1995), La muerte de Tadzio [The death of Tadzio] (Alfaguara, 2000), winner of the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Prize, and Los amores confiados [Confident love] (Alfaguara, 2005), and a collection of letters titled Amante del sexo busca pareja morbosa [Sex lover seeks kinky partner] (2002). He has just published another novel titled Las manos cortadas [Hands cut] (Alfaguara).

Luisgé Martín won the 2009 "Antonio Machado" Train Prize for Storytelling, awarded by the Spanish Railway Foundation, with the story Los años más felices [The happiest years].

In march 2012, Anagrama publishing house will publish his new novel La mujer de sombra [The shadow woman]. 

The critics said the following about his latest novel, Las manos cortadas [Cut hands]:

"I knew about the work of Luisgé Martín ever since he published the storybook Los oscuros (...).  And then came works like La muerte de Tadzio [The death of Tadzio] and Los amores confiados [Trusting loves], which confirmed my idea that I was before one of the most gifted writers of his generation.  However, the way this last book reads is something more: it represents a shift in style employed by some writers from time to time, and which is one of the most trustworthy signs that we are before an artist".
Juan Ángel Juristo. ABCD Las Artes y las Letras.

"I think that Las manos cortadas, is, for now, his most successful novel, his bravest narration, that in which he has more courageously undertaken a new way to coherently continue the same line of all his works, and he has done it under only one condition which is asked of a true writer: risking everything on one card".
Juan Ángel Juristo. ABCD Las Artes y las Letras.

"Ingenious, bold, intense on many occasions, and well told".
María José Obiol. Babelia.

"Playing between history and fiction, nobody can afford to lean heavily towards one side or the other.  The novelesque transformation of this principle, which has its starting point in literary history with Don Quijote, is one of the most attractive features of this excellent novel".        Ricardo Senabre. El Cultural.

"The literary treatment of the characters is impeccable".
 Ricardo Senabre. El Cultural.