| Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel | |
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| Born | 1974 Malaga, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel (born 1974, in Malaga, Spain) is a Spanish writer. He is renowned in his native country for being one of the greatest short-story writers of his generation and winner of an enormous number of awards proving that very thing.
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Muñoz Rengel achieved the doctorate courses in Philosophy and worked as a teacher in Spain and UK.
In 1998 founded the literary review Estigma. Columnist and contributor for a number of relevant publications such as Anthropos, Clarín, Barcarola or El País,[1] he has received more than fifty international awards for short stories in the Spanish language.
He also was finalist of the Clarín Alfaguara Novel Award[2], Argentina's most prestigious international literary prize, of which José Saramago was president of the jury, for the novel The hypochondriac killer.
Nowadays, Muñoz Rengel lives in Madrid, teaches in the Writer's Center Fuentetaja and manages a literary program in Radio Nacional de España.
His first book, 88 Mill Lane, is a selection of fantasy stories set in London, while his second short stories book, De mecánica y alquimia, Premio Ignotus Best Short Story Collection Award[3], extends its settings to all Europe, from 11th century to the next future.
His novel The hypochondriac killer is a crime fiction parody, with appearances of all famous hypochondriacs writers and philosophers.
His work has been translated into English, Italian and Russian, and right now is being rendered into several other languages in many countries.