Pablo De Santis
ARGENTINA, 1963
PLANETA - CASA DE AMÉRICA LITERARY AWARD 2007
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NATIONAL PRIZE OF ARGENTINA 2012
Pablo De Santis is a literature graduate, writer, journalist and comicstrip writer. His work has been very well-received by reading public and critics alike. His ideal novel is one in which the reader should not feel disappointed, where, beyond all the complications, something is consummated and a good ending functions as narrative closure and as an opening up to interpretation.
He has been awarded the Planeta / Casa de América 2007 prize for his novel The Paris Enigma; the National Culture Prize in the Children's Literature category in 2012 for The Labyrinth Game; the Argentine Children's and Young Adult Literature Association (ALIJA) Prize -illustrated album category- for The new student ( 2021); and the Esteban Echeverría Prize in the Narrative category (2022).
«De Santis's literature ranks me as one of its supporters
since long time ago. (...) De Santis is gifted with
an incredible intelligence and fantasy.»
Juan Manuel de Prada, ABC
PUBLISHED BY: Argentina and Uruguay HOTEL DE LAS IDEAS / CALIBROSCOPIO | Latin America PLANETA / ALFAGUARA / SANTILLANA | Spain DESTINO | Brazil OBJETIVA | Bulgaria COLIBRÍ | China TIANJIN HUAWENTIANXIA | Czech Republic MLADA FRONTA | Denmark SKJØDT FORLAG | France MÉTAILIÉ | Germany UNIONSVERLAG | Greece OPERA / LIVANIS / ANGELUS NOVUS | Hungary ULPIUS HAZ / KOSSUTH | Israel SIMTAOT / TESHA NESHAMOT | Italy MONDADORI / SALANI / PARAPIGLIA | Japan HAYAKAWA | Poland MUZA | Portugal DOM QUIXOTE | Romania HUMANITAS | Russia AST | Serbia MEDIA II / RAD | Taiwan AZOTH BOOKS | UK & USA HARPER COLLINS audiobook RECORDED BOOKS | Film rights optioned by JP BUSCARINI / K&S Films / RT Features
By Pablo De Santis
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NOVEL, 2024
Volcanic ash has covered Bosque Blanco, a tourist town in Patagonia, for the past year. Flights to the area have been cancelled; hotels and restaurants are empty, and a large part of the...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2023
To get into Gong School, Ciruela must past a very difficult entrance exam. When she goes back to get the results, the Assistant Headteacher Valpurgia Cameron tells her that due to an...
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NOVEL, 2021
An enthralling story in which the criminal arts are playfully given their due with wit and originality. London, 1932. A small philately shop acts as a front for Belladonna Academy, a school...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2021
This is the unknown story of one of Jules Verne's most famous characters: Captain Nemo. After the sinking of the Nautilus, he is forced to hide from pursuers who have put a price on his head....
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2019
Wining book of the Premio Letteratura Ragazzi di Cento 2024. “Five young men and women are invited to Alpha City, a secret metropolis. Each of them is given a crime to solve. The one...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2018
Leyra is a new student at the Témpore Institute, an art school for girls that specializes in drawing. There, she develops her skills as an illustrator and takes part in a competition that...
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NOVEL, 2017
The novel begins where it ends: with the dead body of Ezequiel Colina Ross, a professor of cryptography who taught the narrator of this story, Miguel Dorey. Miguel's father plans for him to...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2016
El juego de la nieve (The Game of Snow) is the third and final part of El inventor de juegos (The Game Inventor) the bestselling Argentine fantasy saga. The Zyl Games Festival is about to...
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GRAPHIC NOVEL, 2016
As ideal speakers of the language of the comic, De Santis and Sáenz Valiente have a unique relationship with it: they speak it as fluently as a mother tongue but also dissect it with the...
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SHORT STORIES, 2014
A horrifying silhouette drawn on a classroom blackboard is terrorizing the whole school. A train journey reveals the ethics behind magic. A young violinist tests himself in the big city, to great...
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NOVEL, 2013
Buenos Aires 1894. Detective Craig has just died and the young investigator Sigmundo Salvatorio, the protagonist of The Paris Enigma, is left in charge of the agency. He must immediately take his...
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The Real Business of Mr Trapani
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 2012
ILLUSTRATIONS BY HERNÁN CAÑELLAS Mr. Trapani arrives at a small city and sets up a pet shop. At first the shop looks like it's lacking customers and pets, but soon Trapani...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2011
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NATIONAL PRIZE OF ARGENTINA 2012 Overnight, a labyrinth of plants appears in the legendary city of Zyl. The inhabitants are trapped in their homes and are forced to give...
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NOVEL, 2010
The Antique Dealers live in hiding, always surrounded by objects of the past, above all books. They live in old bookstores or in antique shops. They can endure neither change nor the present. They...
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The hypnotist (with Juan Sáenz Valiente)
GRAPHIC NOVEL, 2010
Buenos Aires in the second half of the twentieth century is the setting for the adventures of Señor Arenas, an unusual and engaging hero. The place is Las Violetas , a dark and dusty hotel...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2008
Every day after school, Juan Brum entertains himself by imitating his favorite comic strip characters. One day he shows up at the publishing house Libra, which publishes the comic strip Cormack,...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2008
Max goes to Buenos Aires to study. However, his real goal is to find Teresa, with whom he is in love. When he arrives, he moves into a cheap room whose window reminds him of a fish eye. From...
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NOVEL, 2007
WINNER OF THE PLANETA/CASA DE AMERICA LITERARY AWARD 2007 París, 1889. On the eve of the International Exposition, twelve most prominent detectives from distant countries get together to...
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NOVEL, 2005
This is the story of Silvio Balestri, an Italian architect who arrives in New York in 1915 to design skyscrapers. Over the years he rises through the ranks of a big company, while conceiving his...
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NOVEL, 2001
In France during the enlightenment, a young calligrapher in the service of Voltaire will tell the tale of a plot by a religious order to increase its power and influence in French politics....
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2003
At seven, Ivan Drago participates in a games contest and, among ten thousand children, is selected the winner. All at once his life changes completely: his parents mysteriously disappear during a...
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NOVEL, 2000
In the neurology ward of the hospital where he works, Doctor Martin Nigro receives a patient with no memory and no means of identifying him. The investigation into his past will lead the doctor...
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NOVEL, 1998
Of the work of the genius writer Homero Brocca, only a single story, told in infinite different versions, remains. However, there are clues to be found on the fifth floor of the crumbling...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 1997
Darío inherits a struggling publisher from his uncle, and also a novel with all the pages jumbled up. Working through the night, he sets out to put the book back together again with the...
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YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 1994
Leo is a late-blooming adolescent who does not know what to do with his life.With no job and a pretty uncertain future, he undertakes a series of unusual occupations before deciding to ask his...
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