Agustín Martínez (born 1975) is a Spanish noir fiction novelist and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2021 Premio Planeta for ''La Bestia'', written alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz under the pen name

Carmen Mola Carmen Mola is a Pseudonym#Literature, collective pseudonym of three Spanish writers of crime thrillers. The real authors are Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Santos Mercero, Antonio Mercero, best known as television scriptwriters. In ...

Biography

Born in 1975 in Lorca, Murcia, he studied Image and Sound at the Complutense University of Madrid. Initially dedicated to advertising, he began to write television series screenplays afterwards. His first novel, ''Monteperdido'', was published in 2015. It was followed by ''La mala hierba'' (2017). Both were published by , linked to

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. Alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz, he was one of the three authors closeted behind the

pen name, known for a grim noir novel trilogy published by Penguin Random House's Alfaguara which stars "atypical" inspector Elena Blanco: ''La novia gitana'' (2018), ''La red púrpura'' (2019) and ''La nena'' (2020). The trio wrote another novel (''La bestia'') as Carmen Mola, which was in turn presented as an unpublished work to the jury of the 2021 Premio Planeta under the title ''Ciudad de fuego'' and the pen name 'Sergio López'. As they won the award, the trio disclosed the identity behind 'Carmen Mola'. The circumstance of three males disguising under a female pen name and creating a fake female persona ("a female university lecturer") to market the Elena Blanco books did not avoid public scrutiny and controversy. They claimed they were "tired of lying".

Works

;Television ;Novels * (English translation by Frank Wynne as ''Village of the Lost Girls'', 2018) * ;Pseudonymous works alongside Antonio Mercero and Jorge Díaz * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Agustin Spanish novelists Spanish screenwriters Spanish male screenwriters Spanish male novelists People from Lorca, Spain Complutense University of Madrid alumni Living people 1975 births