Roberto Santiago was born in Madrid in 1968. He studied Image and Sound at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid and Creative Writing at the School of Letters of Madrid.
He has been a television screenwriter, editor for advertising agencies in Madrid, music video director, and has published several novels. Among others, the Los Futbolísimos series, an editorial phenomenon that has become one of the best-selling children's literature collections in our country in recent years, and which has been translated into several languages.
His first novel, El ladrón de mentiras, was a finalist for the El Barco de Vapor Award. And he won the Edebè Award for Children's Literature with Jon y la máquina del miedo. He has recently started the saga Los forasteros del tiempo.
He has written and directed, among others, the films El penalti más largo del mundo (nominated for the Goya for Best Screenplay), El club de los suicidas (based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson), Al final del camino (filmed entirely on the Camino de Santiago), the international co-production El sueño de Iván (sponsored by Unicef for its values for children), or the independent horror comedy La Cosecha (award for best film at the Oregon Horror Festival). His short film Ruleta participated in the Official Section of the Cannes Festival. In addition, he has collaborated as director and screenwriter in several television series.
In theater, he has written the adaptations of Ocho apellidos vascos and El otro lado de la cama (Telón Award for Emerging Author). As well as the original texts Share 38 (Enrique Llovet Award), Desnudas (runner-up Sgae Award), La felicidad de las mujeres, Topos, El lunar de Lady Chatterley, or Adolescer 2055.
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