Santi Fernández Patón

SANTI FERNÁNDEZ PATÓN (1975) first came onto the literary scene in 2014 with his novel Grietas that won the Lengua de Trapo Prize and received considerable critical acclaim: "It grows in intensity and is truly memorable" (Fernando Castanedo: El País); "He has the mark of a writer of stature, one of those able to illustrate a general - or generational - problem through telling the everyday stories of particular people who function as archetypes." (Luis Matías López: Público); "Fernández Patón has vision and pulse" (Guillermo Busutil: La Opinión de Málaga); "We need novels like "Grietas" [Cracks] in out literary landscape." (Emma Quesada: Diagonal); "A virtuoso who writes with the precision of a surgeon. He is especially skilled in building up characters and then placing them in dehumanising contexts." (Pablo Bujalance: Málaga Hoy); "[…] He has the makings of someone who will become a key reference point in Spanish literature." (Rubén J. Olivares: Letras en …)