Luis Ramón Leante Chacón (born June 6, 1963,

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), commonly known as Luis Leante, is a Spanish

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and

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professor. Leante graduated in

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from the

University of Murcia The University of Murcia () is the primary institute of higher education in Murcia, Spain. With a student population of approximately 38,000, it is the largest university in the Region of Murcia. Founded in 1272 AD, the University of Murcia is ...

. He has lived in

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since 1992, where he worked as a high school teacher until 2009. He published his first novel at the age of 20, but it was not until 2007, after winning the

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with his novel ''See How Much I Love You'' (in Spanish, ''Mira si yo te querré''), that he began to devote himself entirely to

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. Another of his novels, ''Red Moon'' (in Spanish, ''La luna roja''), published in Spain in 2009, is a gripping story between a writer and translator, set in

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and

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.Luis Leante viaja de Estambul a Alicante en su último libro (''Luis Leante traveling from Istanbul to Alicante in his latest book'') (La Opinión de Murcia).

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Camino del jueves rojo'' (

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

). * ''Paisaje con río y Baracoa de fondo'' (

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

). * ''Al final del trayecto'' (

). * ''La Edad de Plata'' (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

). * ''El canto del zaigú'' (

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

). * ''El vuelo de las termitas'' (

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

). * ''Academia Europa'' (

). * ''Mira si yo te querré'' (

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

; tr: ''See How Much I Love You''). * ''La Luna Roja'' (

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

; tr: ''Red Moon''). * ''Cárceles imaginarias'' (

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

). * ''Annobón'' (2017).

Short stories

* ''El último viaje de Efraín'' (

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

). * ''El criador de canarios'' (

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Children's Novels

* ''La puerta trasera del paraíso'' (

). * ''Rebelión en Nueva Granada'' (

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

). * ''Justino Lumbreras detective privado'' (2012). * ''Justino Lumbreras y el fantasma del museo'' (2012). * ''Justino Lumbreras y el collar de Cleopatra'' (2013). * ''Justino Lumbreras y el Gran Caruso'' (2013). * ''Huye sin mirar atrás'' (2016). * ''Maneras de vivir'' (2020).

References

External links

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Official blogInformation about the writer in his publisher's website
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