Sergio del Molino (Madrid, 1979) is the author of two crucial narrative essays on depopulation and "the idea of country": La España vacía (2016; Alfaguara, 2022), with which he won the best essay award from the Booksellers Guild and the Cálamo Prize, as well as making it onto the "best of the year" lists of all cultural press; and Contra la España vacía (Alfaguara, 2021). Previously, he had won the Ojo Crítico and Tigre Juan awards with La hora violeta (2013) and later the Espasa Prize with Lugares fuera de sitio (2018). He is also the author of novels such as Lo que a nadie le importa (2014) and La mirada de los peces (2017), the brief biographical essay Calomarde. El hijo bastardo de las luces (2020), a novelized autobiography about his relationship with illness, La piel (Alfaguara, 2020), and Un tal González (Alfaguara, 2022). He is a columnist for El País newspaper and a contributor to Onda Cero Radio, among other media. His works have appeared in English, Italian, French, Greek, German, and Chinese, among other languages, and in more than fifteen countries.
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